"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.












There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

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"Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.
"There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continue...
"Dawn is ever the hope of men.
"Not all that have fallen are vanquished.
"Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
"It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now min...
"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.
"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beau...
"Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swi...
"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's risingI came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:Now for wrath...
"In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
"What did I tell you? Something's happening!' cried Sam. '"The war's going well," said Shagrat; but Gorbag he wasn't so sure. And he was right there to...
"Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell.