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A shy face is better than a forward heart.

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

Miguel de Cervantes
Heart, Shy, Faces

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

Miguel de Cervantes
Horse, Ass, Horse Riding
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.415

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

Miguel de Cervantes
Home, Should Have, Broken
Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.578, ReadHowYouWant.com

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

Miguel de Cervantes
Blood, Envy, Acting

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.

Miguel de Cervantes
Book, Writing, Men
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions

The little birds have God for their caterer.

Miguel de Cervantes
Bird, Littles
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.36

He who reforms, God assists.

Miguel de Cervantes
Reform

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

Miguel de Cervantes
Knights, Mad, Causes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.209, Collector's Library

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Miguel de Cervantes
Music, Soul, Tunes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.10

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Miguel de Cervantes
Cost, Compliment, Civility

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Miguel de Cervantes
Long Distance Relationship, Wings, Distance Love

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Miguel de Cervantes
Seven, Frightened, Senses
"Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part I, book III, chapter IX., 1605-1615.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

Miguel de Cervantes
Home, House

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Miguel de Cervantes
Gathering, Wool, My Thoughts
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

Miguel de Cervantes
House, Should
"Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605-1615.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Miguel de Cervantes
Business, Learning, Ambition
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions

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
Death, Wise, World

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Miguel de Cervantes
Education, Born

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

Miguel de Cervantes
Followers, Folly, Comrade
"Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 13, 1605-1615.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes
Belief, Made, Deals
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1925). “The life and exploits of that ingenious gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha”

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes
Happiness, Laughter, Joy
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.295, Wordsworth Editions

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes
Love, War, Policy
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.245

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.

Miguel de Cervantes
Art, Painting, Painter
"The Portable Cervantes".

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

Miguel de Cervantes
Deeds, Prompts, Urgent
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

Thank you for nothing.

Miguel de Cervantes
Gratitude, Love You
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1774*). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha,1: Being an Accurate, Complete, and Most Entertaining Narrative of the Wonderful Atchievements of that Incomparable Hero and Knight-errant ...”, p.101

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