Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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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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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
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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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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.