It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.


Miguel de Unamuno

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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs
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To be prepared is half the victory.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak...
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Fair and softly goes far.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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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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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
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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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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than...
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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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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
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Absence, that common cure of love.
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
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Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Virtue is the truest nobility.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Facts are the enemy of truth.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by h...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
I've never worked with the Java community.
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your plat...
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
MIGUEL DE ICAZA
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES