Miguel De Cervantes

(8 votes)   Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Miguel de Cervantes
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(570 votes)   'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(467 votes)   One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(465 votes)   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
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(332 votes)   'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(318 votes)   A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(286 votes)   Absence -- that common cure of love.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(246 votes)   He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(240 votes)   My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(208 votes)   Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(206 votes)   You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(204 votes)   Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(201 votes)   Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(201 votes)   Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(185 votes)   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.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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