#fellow

Gandalf!' cried Frodo, sitting up. There was the old wizard, sitting in a chair by an open window. 'Yes,' he said, 'I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home." He was smiling, and there seemed to be little wrong with him. But to the wizard's eye there was a faint change, just a hint as it were of transparency, about him, and especially about the left hand that lay outside upon the coverlet. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#frodo-baggins #gandalf #j-r-r-tolkien #the-lord-of-the-rings #change

Lord, what fools these mortals be! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#elizabethan #robin-goodfellow #dreams

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#longfellow #poetry #sadness #life

You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#fellow-humans #men

Samson had his Delilah, Adam his Eve, and the Jazter had you. Already, I can see my epitaph. "Here lies Jaz, lover of his fellow men, done in royally by one of them. ↗

— Manil Suri

#men

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven! ↗

— John Keats

#happiness #religion #religion

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#mourning

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse. ↗

— John Adams

#faith

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#better #care #day #dollar #fellow

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#because #fellow #find #involved #just