Etheldreda Ferrer

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Etheldreda’s Quotes

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom

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“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious

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“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: christian-values, humility, pride

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“A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: childhood, learning, reading, school, vocabulary

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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