Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
Uzo Aduba
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Harold Larwood
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Vernon Howard
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
Lady Gregory
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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
Laura Mvula
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No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared.
Peter Mullan
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The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
W. H. Auden
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
