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Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
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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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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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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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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