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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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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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All is not gold that glisters.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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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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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Give the devil his due.
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Time ripens all things no man is born wise.
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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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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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