Miguel de Cervantes quotes - page 9

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Every man is the son of his own works. View quote
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Man appoints, and God disappoints. View quote
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. View quote
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Virtue is the truest nobility. View quote
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. View quote
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. View quote
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches. View quote
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. View quote
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. View quote
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. View quote
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. View quote
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. View quote
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. View quote
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A person dishonored is worst than dead. View quote
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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. View quote
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That which costs little is less valued. View quote
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I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet. View quote
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From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing. View quote
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Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep? (Miguel de Cervantes)
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills. View quote
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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. View quote
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. View quote
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. View quote
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