Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.