Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
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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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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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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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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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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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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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Until death it is all life.
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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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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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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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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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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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There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls.
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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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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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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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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.