"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths."
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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 Dwarfs Quotes
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook…
— William Carlos Williams
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Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We…
— Holmes Rolston III
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
— J. B. Priestley
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In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
— Susan Sontag
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We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than…
— John of Salisbury
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Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism…
— Terry Pratchett
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The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds…
— Kofi Annan
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Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the…
— J M Coetzee
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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
— Bernard of Chartres
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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe…
— Carl Sagan
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