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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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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
Miguel de Cervantes
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
Miguel de Cervantes
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
Miguel de Cervantes
Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tomorrow will be a new day.
Miguel de Cervantes
