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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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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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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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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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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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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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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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