A Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

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J. R. R. Tolkien
English - Writer
January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Alexandra David-Neel

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

P. G. Wodehouse

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Vernon Howard

Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.

Homer

In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.

Alexander Smith

Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone.

Kevin Barry

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

William Shakespeare

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

Max Muller

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote

Yvor Winters

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

Samuel Francis Smith

Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.

Norman Davies

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

Lu Xun

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Robert Frost

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