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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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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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