Miguel de Cervantes Quotes - Page 15

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• Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Journey, Suffering, Maps

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.56

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• Tomorrow will be a new day.

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  Future, New Day, Tomorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.728, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

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  Sadness, Comfort, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.242

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• He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

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  One Day, Bed, Want

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• They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

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  Pain, Expect Nothing, Labor

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.9, London : Hurst, Robinson ; Edinburgh : A. Constable

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• We must not stand upon trifles.

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  Trifles

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.155

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• Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.

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  Senior, Regret, Dirty

  "The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 - 1615.

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• Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

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  Lying, Deceit, Stories

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.264

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• I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

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  Should Have, Ends, Should

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1820). “The life and adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha: new edition, with engravings from designs by Richard Westall”, p.347

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• I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

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  Life, Success, God

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• Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

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  Blessing, Heaven, Liberty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.214

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

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  Men, Self, Turkeys

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• For hope is always born at the same time as love.

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  Born

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• Heaven's help is better than early rising.

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  Heaven, Rising, Helping

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

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  Friendship, Dog, Pet

  "Loyal to the end... and beyond", www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2003.

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• A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

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  Literature, World, Sin

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.214

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• What a man has, so much he is sure of.

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  Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1774*). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,2: Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-errant ...”, p.216

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• It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

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  Hands, Long, Evil

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1930). “Don Quixote of La Mancha”

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• Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

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  Courage, Taken, Birth

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.176

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• It requires a long time to know anyone.

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  Long, Long Time, Knows

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• Jests that give pains are no jests.

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  Pain, Giving, Jest

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• The absent feel and fear every ill.

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  Absence, Ill, Feels

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.231

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• Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

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  Uncles, Niece, Book

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• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

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  Literature, Bows, Bent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

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  Men, Talking, House

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