Give the devil his due.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESGreat expectations are better than a poor possession.
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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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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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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Diligence 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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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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