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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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 foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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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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Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
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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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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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Get out of harms way.
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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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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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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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The pen is the language of the soul as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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