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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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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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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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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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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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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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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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Think before thou speakest.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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