Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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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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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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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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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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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.