Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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No day but has its evening.

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Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

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One is never too old to yearn.

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Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The first blow is as good as two.

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Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The light is painful to sore eyes.

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God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |

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When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

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Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

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Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.

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Men | Pain | Will |

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There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

When one door closes another opens.

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Italian Proverbs

The house completed, possession defeated.

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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Voice of one, voice of none.

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Belief | Distinguish | Ethics | God | Human nature | Inevitable | Life | Life | Morality | Nature | Need | Philosophy | Reason | Will | Wrong | God |

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Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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Italian Proverbs

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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