Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?

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Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

The world is governed with little brains.

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The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

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Italian Proverbs

There's no place like home.

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Government | Past | War | Government | Propaganda |

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Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes.

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Italian Proverbs

The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

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Language | People | Words |

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Italian Proverbs

There is no rule without an exception.

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People | Work | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

To a young heart everything is sport.

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People | Public |

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Italian Proverbs

When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.

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Good | Gratitude | Important | Nothing | People | Practice | Religion |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose.

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Example | Knowledge | Light | Think |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

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Children | Global | Government | Labor | People | Rights | War | Government |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

As I lay in prison, Sam, I tried to remember the Brandywine, and Woody End, and The Water running through the mill at Hobbiton. But I can't see them now.

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Age | Control | Education | Need | Old age | Poverty | Slavery | World | Old |

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