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Cervantes

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(542 votes)  'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(524 votes)  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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(522 votes)  For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(505 votes)  There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

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(501 votes)  I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(489 votes)  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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(477 votes)  No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(470 votes)  Fair and softly goes far.

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(466 votes)  A person dishonored is worst than dead.

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(281 votes)  Absence -- that common cure of love.

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(277 votes)  Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

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(273 votes)  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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(265 votes)  Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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(252 votes)  Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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(250 votes)  You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

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(234 votes)  '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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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(231 votes)  The eyes those silent tongues of love.

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(210 votes)  A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

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(208 votes)  It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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(205 votes)  If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(204 votes)  He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

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(204 votes)  Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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(200 votes)  Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(200 votes)  Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

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(198 votes)  'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(197 votes)  Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

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(197 votes)  By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

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(197 votes)  Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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(196 votes)  He had a face like a blessing.

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(196 votes)  Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Miguel De Cervantes
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(196 votes)  My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''

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(194 votes)  One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Miguel De Cervantes
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(193 votes)  The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

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(191 votes)  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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(189 votes)  Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(189 votes)  A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

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(188 votes)  Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

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1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(187 votes)  Faint heart never won fair lady.

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(187 votes)  Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

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(184 votes)  Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

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(184 votes)  There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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(184 votes)  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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(184 votes)  There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(182 votes)  When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

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(180 votes)  Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

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(178 votes)  He preaches well that lives well.

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(177 votes)  Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(177 votes)  Jests that give pains are no jests.

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(176 votes)  Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel De Cervantes
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(176 votes)  'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

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