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Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
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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Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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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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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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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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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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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
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