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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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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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Get out of harms way.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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