Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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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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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.