Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Mum is the word.
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God bears with the wicked but not forever.
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The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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One swallow alone does not make the summer.
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Make hay while the sun shines.
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The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
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All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.
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There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Dine on little and sup on less.
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Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
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Spick and span new.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
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Spick and span new.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
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Take away the cause and the effect ceases.
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Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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There's no love lost between us.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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He had a face like a benediction.
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
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Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."
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Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
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The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.
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Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
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All will come out in the washing.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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All that glisters is not gold.
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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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