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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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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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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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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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I do not insist, answered Don Quixote, that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.
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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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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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