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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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.
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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.
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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.
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.
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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.
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.
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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.
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
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?.