"Don't put too fine a point to your……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."
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Miguel de Cervantes
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314 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes has 314 quotes on this site.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as…
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any…
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the…
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars;…
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses…
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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More Blunted Quotes
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.
— Sun Tzu
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of…
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
— Montgomery Clift
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The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a…
— Pope Francis
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Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out…
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the…
— Steven Erikson
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What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing…
— Richard D. Ryder
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Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness…
— James Bridie
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I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was…
— Conrad Veidt
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Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their…
— Edward Wilmot Blyden
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