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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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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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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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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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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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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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