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Evangelism
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He preaches well that lives well.
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Evil
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Face, Faces
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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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Fame
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Fear
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Food
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Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak deliberately, but not in such a way as to make it seem thou art listening to thyself, for all affectation is bad. Dine sparingly and sup more sparingly still; for the health of the whole body is forged in the workshop of the stomach. Be temperate in drinking, bearing in mind that wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises. Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence.
Eruct! said Sancho; I don't know what that means.
To eruct, Sancho, said Don Quixote, means to belch, and that is one of the filthiest words in the Spanish language, though a very expressive one; and therefore nice folk have had recourse to the Latin, and instead of belch say eruct, and instead of belches say eructations; and if some do not understand these terms it matters little, for custom will bring them into use in the course of time, so that they will be readily understood; this is the way a language is enriched; custom and the public are all-powerful there.
In truth, senor, said Sancho, one of the counsels and cautions I mean to bear in mind shall be this, not to belch, for I'm constantly doing it.
Eruct, Sancho, not belch, said Don Quixote.
Eruct, I shall say henceforth, and I swear not to forget it, said Sancho.
-Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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Fools, Foolishness
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Freedom
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Friends
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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Future, The
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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God
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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Government
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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Happiness
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Help
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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History
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Home
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Honor
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A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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Hope
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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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Humanity
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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Humor
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Illusion
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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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