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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.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about celebrity, stars, courage, world, man

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

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

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about love

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about pray, things

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

That which costs little is less valued.

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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about love, nature

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about eyes, love

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about wealth

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about proudness, vanity, knowledge, contentment

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about comedy, character

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about old, olderness, world

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about real estate, charm, sadness, death, man, good, good luck

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.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about humor, ideal

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about despair, world, man

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about wealth, war, nothing

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

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Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about nothing