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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Miguel De Cervantes

Time

Man

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Miguel De Cervantes

Sheep

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Miguel De Cervantes

Man

Talking

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Miguel De Cervantes

Comfort

To be prepared is half the victory.

Miguel De Cervantes

Victory

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel De Cervantes

Trout

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Miguel De Cervantes

Virtue

Nobility

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.