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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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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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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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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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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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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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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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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