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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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It is good to live and learn.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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When we are asleep, we are all equal.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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There is nothing costs less than civility.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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