Miguel de Cervantes Quotes - Page 14

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• A shy face is better than a forward heart.

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  Heart, Shy, Faces

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• Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

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  Wine, Secret, Promise

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.632, StoneHenge Classics

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• The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

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  Home, Should Have, Broken

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.578, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

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  Blood, Envy, Acting

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• There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

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  Book, Writing, Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions

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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

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  Knights, Mad, Causes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.209, Collector's Library

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• He who reforms, God assists.

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  Reform

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• The little birds have God for their caterer.

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  Bird, Littles

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.36

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• Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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  Music, Soul, Tunes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.10

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• Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

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  Cost, Compliment, Civility

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• Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

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  Long Distance Relationship, Wings, Distance Love

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• I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

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  Seven, Frightened, Senses

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part I, book III, chapter IX., 1605-1615.

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• Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

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  Home, House

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• My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

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  Gathering, Wool, My Thoughts

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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• One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

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  House, Should

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605-1615.

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• Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

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  Business, Learning, Ambition

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions

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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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  Death, Wise, World

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• Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

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  Education, Born

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• Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

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  Followers, Folly, Comrade

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 13, 1605-1615.

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• Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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  Belief, Made, Deals

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1925). “The life and exploits of that ingenious gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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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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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.295, Wordsworth Editions

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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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  Love, War, Policy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.245

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• One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

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  Art, Painting, Painter

  "The Portable Cervantes".

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• Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

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  Deeds, Prompts, Urgent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thank you for nothing.

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  Gratitude, Love You

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1774*). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,1: Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-errant ...”, p.101

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