The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any pow…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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