There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.


Miguel de Cervantes

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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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He had a face like a blessing.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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Absence -- that common cure of love.
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Absence, that common cure of love.
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Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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though it don't make you laugh outright, it may chance to make ye draw in your Lips, and shew your T...
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Preparation is half of the battle
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida...
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With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida mucha...
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My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saav...
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien p...
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I s...
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and w...
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Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
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All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
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Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
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Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
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Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla...
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Within a stone's throw of it.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por se...
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son m...
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Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
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He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
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In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hace...
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantaril...
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To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
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When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
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There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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I have other fish to fry.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Make hay while the sun shines.
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to bet...
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
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More knave than fool.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
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