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I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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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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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Do not eat garlic or onions for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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He who's never loved cannot be good.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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What a man has, so much he is sure of.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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