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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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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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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 very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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