Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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Things that has happened will happen again. Religious myths for example, which are allegorical, will per definition reoccur.

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What costs little is little esteemed.

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Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

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When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

Who buys land buys war.

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Emotions | Thought | Thought |

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

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Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

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The salt of patience seasons everything.

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Those who begin many things finish but a few.

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Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

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To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

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Weddings and spiritual matters are heaven sent.

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Life | Life | Thought | Thought |

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When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

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Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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Where there's a will there's a way.

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Mind | Thought | Thought |

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Virtue comes not from chance but long study.

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Memory | Time |

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Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

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Time | Unity | Think |

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There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

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Will |

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