My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESGreat expectations are better than a poor possession.
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It is good to live and learn.
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Where there’s music there can be no evil.
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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 ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Until death it is all life.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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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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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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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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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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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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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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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