Best Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes (Top 10)
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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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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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it....
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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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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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
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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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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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The proof is in the pudding.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
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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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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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There's no love lost between us.
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