I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESDiligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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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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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Think before thou speakest.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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