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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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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The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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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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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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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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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 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.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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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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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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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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