Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Think before thou speakest.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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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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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
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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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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Get out of harms way.
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History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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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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Where there's music there can be no evil.