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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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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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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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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It requires a long time to know anyone.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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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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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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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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'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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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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