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LotR: Denethor Quotes: Fill in the Blanks

Can you fill in the blanks of these quotes said by Denethor?
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"The West has failed. It shall all go up in a great fire, and all shall be ended. Ash! Ash and smoke blown away on the wind!"
"He will not wake again. Battle is vain. Why should we wish to live longer? Why should we not go to death side by side?"
"For a little space you may triumph on the field, for a day. But against the Power that now arises there is no victory."
"But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated."
"I sent my son forth, unthanked, unblessed, out into needless peril, and here he lies with poison in his veins. Nay, nay, whatever may now betide in war, my line too is ending, even the House of the Stewards has failed."
"Why? Why do the fools fly? Better to burn sooner than late, for burn we must. Go back to your bonfire! And I? I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre!"
"And to him there is no purpose higher in the world as it now stands than the good of Gondor; and the rule of Gondor, my lord, is mine and no other man's, unless the king should come again."
"And once again it is shown that looks may belie the man - or the halfling. I accept your service."
"For though the stones be lost, they say, still the lords of Gondor have keener sight than lesser men, and many messages come to them."
"Pride would be folly that disdained help and counsel at need."
"Ever your desire is to appear lordly and generous as a king of old, gracious, gentle. That may well befit one of high race, if he sits in power and peace. But in desperate hours gentleness may be repaid with death."
"In what is left, let all who fight the Enemy in their fashion be at one, and keep hope while they may, and after hope still the hardihood to die free."
"Nay, I will not come down. I must stay beside my son. He might still speak before the end. But that is near. Follow whom you will, even the Grey Fool, though his hope has failed. Here I stay."
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