Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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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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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Think before thou speakest.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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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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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.