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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Uplifting, Hope, Sky

  "The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories". Book by Varla Ventura (p. 46), 2008.

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• Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Heaven, Bread

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1853). “Don Quixote de La Mancha”, p.362

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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

  Sea, Water, Atheism

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.185, Collector's Library

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• Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

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  Crazy, Doubt, Promise

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1950). “The adventures of Don Quixote”, Penguin Classics

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• Too much sanity may be madness!

  Miguel de Cervantes

  May, Too Much, Madness

  "Fictional character: Miguel de Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Children, Father

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1825). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.108

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• Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Discipline, Padlocks, Bars

  "The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

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  Art, Giving, Victory

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.107, StoneHenge Classics

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• God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  God, Life And Love, Forever

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.618, StoneHenge Classics

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• Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Buckets, Rope, Prudence

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1831). “The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.47

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• The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

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  Writing, Soul, Tongue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1898). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”

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• Delay always breeds danger.

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  Anger, Delay, Danger

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who gives early gives twice.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Giving, Charity

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• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Truth, Oil, Broken

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• there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fall, House, Hours

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• My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

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  Memories, Names, Forget

  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.272

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• I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

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  Shoes, My Own, I Can

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have other fish to fry.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.556, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who sings frightens away his ills.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Music

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.7

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• Let every man look before he leaps.

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  Men, Looks, Leap

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

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  Traitor, Treason, Please

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.51

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• My honor is dearer to me than my life.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Honor

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1941). “The First Part of the Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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• But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

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  Writing, Hands, Giving

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.214, Collector's Library

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• You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

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  Kings, Home, Fire

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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