Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Silmarillion, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Silmarillion, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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