Miguel de Cervantes Quotes - Page 8

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• Fair and softly goes far.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Compassion, Literature, Fairness

  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”

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• Thou hast seen nothing yet.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Optimistic, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.158, Wordsworth Editions

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• Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

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  Important, Trying, Sometimes

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• You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cake, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, Miscellaneous

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.59

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• Dine on little, and sup on less.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Littles, Dine, Prudence

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.26

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• Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Home, Wool, Coming Home

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.563, Wordsworth Editions

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• For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity, Handsome, Imagine

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• Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

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  May, Wealth, Masters

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.12

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• Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sin, Motive

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• True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Cowardice, Middle

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• Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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  Long, Literature, Sentences

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1857). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.356

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• Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Battle, Giants, Thirty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Blessing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1852). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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• We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  God, Pain, Sake

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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• Other men's pains are easily borne.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pain, Men

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• There is no proverb that is not true.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.333, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When in doubt, lean to the side of #‎ mercy .

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  Doubt, Sides, Mercy

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• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Truth

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.412, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man prepared has half fought the battle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Progress, Battle

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.26

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• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

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  Fear, Halloween, Eye

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Collector's Library

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• By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

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  Innovation, Language, Adopted

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux, John Gibson Lockhart (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.277

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• The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

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  Wise, Saws, Wealth

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part II, 1615.

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• Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

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  Drinking, Wine, Secret

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• Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

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  Wise, Wise Words, Enough

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.564, Wordsworth Editions

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• Health and cheerfulness make beauty

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  Cheerfulness

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