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Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
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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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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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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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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