Great Throughts Treasury

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None so deaf as those who will not hear.

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Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

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Out of a great evil often comes a great good.

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Order | Universe |

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Penny and penny laid up will be many.

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Diversity | People | Understanding | Understand |

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Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

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Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

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Shame take him that shame thinketh.

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Love | People |

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The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

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Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not.

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Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.

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No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.

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The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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One enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.

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One enemy is too many and a hundred friends aren't enough.

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Learning | Need | Will | Teacher |

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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

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Office | People | Question | Will |

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That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

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People | Present | Relationship |

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Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat.

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Death | Good | Hypothesis | Individual | Phenomena | Sense | Loss |

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That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

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People | Gossip |

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