If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

Frank Herbert


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The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Frank Herbert

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There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.

Frank Herbert


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For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

Frank Herbert


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The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Frank Herbert


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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Frank Herbert


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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Frank Herbert

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The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Frank Herbert


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When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Frank Herbert


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To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

Frank Herbert

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