Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

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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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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

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Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.

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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic — adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

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It is a common saying, that he who gives freely gives twice.

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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

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"There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."

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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

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They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.

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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

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

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Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

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Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

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