Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Until death it is all life.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls.