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At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Age: 81 †
Born: 1600
Born: January 17
Died: 1681
Died: May 25
Dramatist
Military Personnel
Playwright
Poet
Priest
Madrid
Spain
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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All must yield to the weight of years conquest is not difficult for time.
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Speak no evil of women I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect for of women do we not all come?
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Restless sunflower cease to move.
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The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
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Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
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Great events have sent before them their announcements.
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But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
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The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
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And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death
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They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
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Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.
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Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.
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A good action is never lost it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
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No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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