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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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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
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Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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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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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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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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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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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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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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