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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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It is good to live and learn.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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