Great Throughts Treasury

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Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Force |

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Where passion is high, reason is low.

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Proverbs | Work |

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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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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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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When the wind serves, all aid.

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Wisdom |

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Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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

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Language | People | Words |

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There is no rule without an exception.

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People | Work | Think |

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To a young heart everything is sport.

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People | Public |

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

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Example | Knowledge | Light | Think |

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Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

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Love |

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