Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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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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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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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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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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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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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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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.