Miguel de Cervantes on desert
Miguel de Cervantes110 quotes“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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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Give the devil his due.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Let us make hay while the sun shines.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes
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Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel’s milk!
Abu NuwasAbu Nuwas Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KabirKabir When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder They make a desert and call it peace.
TacitusTacitus Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
StendhalStendhal As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God’s eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
Sam HarrisSam Harris A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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