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.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESDine on little, and sup on less.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
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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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He who gives early gives twice.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Until death it is all life.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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