One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESNever look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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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.
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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.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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It is good to live and learn.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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