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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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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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Until death it is all life.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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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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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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