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.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESOur greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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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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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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Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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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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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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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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