The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. Pedro Calderon de la Barca More Quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca More Quotes From Pedro Calderon de la Barca Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall. Pedro Calderon de la Barca secret air fall The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. Pedro Calderon de la Barca agree together beauty The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox. Pedro Calderon de la Barca cunning foxes A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry. Pedro Calderon de la Barca stronger should needs Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell. Pedro Calderon de la Barca pain loss lying At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore. Pedro Calderon de la Barca frenzy affection adore A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. Pedro Calderon de la Barca doers treasure needs All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. Pedro Calderon de la Barca yield time years 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. Pedro Calderon de la Barca crucible real perfect Great events have sent before them their announcements. Pedro Calderon de la Barca great-events announcements events All just laws condemn cruelty. Pedro Calderon de la Barca cruelty law What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? Pedro Calderon de la Barca law sweet bird They say that the best counsel is that of woman. Pedro Calderon de la Barca advice And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death Pedro Calderon de la Barca dream sleep night A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. Pedro Calderon de la Barca charity sake two To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's. Pedro Calderon de la Barca soul kings giving
