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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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Motivational, Truth, Honesty
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

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

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

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Arrows, Example, Target

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

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Men, Sorrow, Too Much
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote”, p.71

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

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Mother, Experience, Universal
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.229

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

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Heart, Endure, Please
"The Little Gypsy". "The Little Gypsy" by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

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Lovers, Uneasy, Industrious
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.251

There's no love lost between us.

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Life, Lost Love, No Love Lost
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha”, p.266

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

Behind the cross is the devil.

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Devil, Crosses, Behinds

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

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Hilarious, Complaining, Classic
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.20, Collector's Library

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.

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Forever, Missing, Literature
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.464

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

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Food, Men, Cooking
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.154

He had a face like a blessing.

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Blessing, Grace, Faces
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2010). “Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

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Doors, Fortune, Remedy
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.83, Wordsworth Editions

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

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Funny, Men, Dental Work
Don Quixote I, Ch. 4 (1605)

He who's never loved cannot be good.

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Be Good

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

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Excess, Bears, Ass
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.4

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.

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Hands, Devil, World
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

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Pain, Remembrance, Doe
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.74

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

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Sorrow, Bread, Bearable
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.32

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

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Compassion, Judging, Sides
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.321

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.

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Friends, Men, Law
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.189

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes
Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs
"Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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