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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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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.
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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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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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