Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
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You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.
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President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.
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Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
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Brother, sister, only words; but this, a reality, a destroyer at the gate. What could it have mattered, after all, to celebrate her hungry youth, and his, before the sword fell on her? All the plots and schemes, the moralities and codes of men, seemed dust in the face of death.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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Two people happy with themselves can be exceptionally happy together.
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I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.
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It's so important to have your own relationship with the Lord. That is the number one thing I would say. Be sure that you are getting to a place where God is your best friend. He wants that relationship with you. He wants you to be in love with Him like that. It takes time. It takes discipline to spend time in His word and spend time listening to stuff that's going to pour life into you and not just thinking about your appearance or things that a lot of music tries to tell you to do. Be careful of that. Be careful of what you're filling your spirit with.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
