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“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Inspirational #Inspiring #Money
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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.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Inspirational #Courage #Stars
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“Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Son #Literature #Deeds
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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....”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Love #Running #Morning
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“In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Fear #Needs #World
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“Delay always breeds danger.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Anger #Delay #Danger
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“Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Promise #Secret #Literature
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“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Mouths
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“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Optimistic #Literature
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“All sorrows are less with bread.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Food #Sorrow #Bread
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“The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Honor #Battle #Wounds
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“He who sings frightens away his ills.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Happiness
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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.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Inspirational #Life #Hope
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“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Discipline #Literature #Praise
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“A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Knights #Mad #Causes
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“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Inspirational #Hurt #Truth
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“She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Trying #Desire #Want
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“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
#Mother #Home #Government
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“Comparisons are odious.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Guidance #Standards #Comparison
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“A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Teeth #Diamond
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“Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Friendship #Art #Thee
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“Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Queens #Latin #Color
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“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Funny #Death #Wells
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“I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Mother #Believe #Literature
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“A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!...”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Years #Months #World
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“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Book #Doe
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“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Inspirational #World #Lessons
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“A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Men #Honor
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“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Character #Men #Simple
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“When one door is shut, another opens.”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
#Positive #Doors
