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All knowledge is sacred, but it should not be secret.

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In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

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He made the quick apologetic grimace that seemed to be as near as he ever came to a smile.

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Whatever happens, believe that the journey is worth taking, and then you will reach its end.

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Nothing is what it seems, boy. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. There's your first lesson.

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Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be.

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But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.

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So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away...

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But why Latin? demanded Barney.
I don't know, the monks just always used it, that's all, it was one of their things. I suppose it's a religious-sounding kind of language.

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When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back,
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone.

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Nearly every tale that men tell of magic and witches and such is born out of foolishness and ignorance and sickness of mind—or is a way of explaining things they do not understand.

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The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

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Will saw the cruelty now as the fierce inevitability of nature. It was not from malice that the Light and the servants of the Light would ever hound the Dark, but from the nature of things.

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No, he is not of the Dark. But he is very useful. A man so wrapped in his own ill-will is a gift to the Dark from the earth. It is so easy to give him suitable ideas... Very useful, indeed.

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For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.

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