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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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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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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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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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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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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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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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