From J.R.R. Tolkien: “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
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Quote of the day 12/26/23
From J.R.R. Tolkien: “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
Quote of the day 12/25/23
From Charles Dickens: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Quote of the day 12/24/23
From J.R.R. Tolkien: ‘Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
Quote of the day 12/23/23
From J.R.R. Tolkien: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Quote of the day 12/14/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
Quote of the day 12/13/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The formula ‘Two and two make five’ is not without its attractions.”
Quote of the day 12/12/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”
Quote of the day 12/11/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
Quote of the day 12/10/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”