Miguel De Cervantes
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
He had a face like a blessing.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Fair and softly goes far.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
Miracle me no miracles.
'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.