Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes - Page 2

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• Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.

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  Dream, Passion, Men

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• All just laws condemn cruelty.

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  Law, Cruelty

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• A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

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  Stronger, Needs, Should

  "El Purgatorio de Sans Patricio". Play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca (Act III, Scene 4), translated, 1685.

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• A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

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  Two, Sake, Charity

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• All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

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  Time, Yield, Years

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• The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

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  Beauty, Together, Agree

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• These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

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  Heartbreak, Morning, Flower

  "A las flores". Poem by Pedro Calderon de la Barca,

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• Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

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  Grief, Two, Hydra

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• At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.

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  Affection, Adore, Frenzy

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• Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

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  Pain, Lying, Loss

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• No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

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  Real, Perfect, Crucible

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• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

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  Sweet, Law, Bird

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