Great Throughts Treasury

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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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Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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When one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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The house completed, possession defeated.

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Will | Woman |

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

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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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The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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