Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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There's no love lost between us.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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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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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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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One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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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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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.