Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer and poet
Lived from: 1547 - 1616
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
Spain
Born: 9 october 1547 Died: 22 april 1616
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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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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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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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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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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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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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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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