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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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In hell there is no retention.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Miguel de Cervantes -
He had a face like a blessing.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes -
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Let the worst come to the worst.
Miguel de Cervantes
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Miguel de Cervantes -
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Miguel de Cervantes -
When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Miguel de Cervantes -
"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
Miguel de Cervantes -
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Delay always breeds danger.
Miguel de Cervantes
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He preaches well that lives well.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
Miguel de Cervantes -
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes