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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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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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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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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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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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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