"The pen is the tongue of the soul;……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written."
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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 Engendered Quotes
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
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The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who…
— Ravi Zacharias
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must…
— Alfred Sturtevant
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I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people…
— Peter Cosgrove
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy…
— William James
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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded…
— Plato
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment…
— Sigmund Freud
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at…
— Rose Macaulay
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is…
— William Irwin Thompson
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
— William Godwin
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst…
— Denis de Rougemont
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