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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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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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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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He who's never loved cannot be good.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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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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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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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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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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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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