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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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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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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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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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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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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
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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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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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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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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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He who reforms, God assists.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
Miguel de Cervantes
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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