Great Throughts Treasury

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Sometimes the lees are better than the wine.

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Little | Means | Will |

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The father a saint the son a devil.

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Culture | Means |

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Not being tempted is a sign that fortune has forgotten you.

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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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One should learn to sail in all winds.

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Future | Will |

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Softly, barber, the water scalds.

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Balance | Rights | System | Wise |

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Not all words require an answer.

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Better | God | Will | God |

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Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.

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Politics | Vision | Will |

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Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.

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Right | Study | Will |

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Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

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Power | Revolution | Will | World |

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Muddy water won't do for a mirror.

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

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Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

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People in glass houses should not throw stones.

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Personality | Will |

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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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No one ever became poor through giving alms.

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Art | Design | Sense | Technology | Thinking | Will | Art |

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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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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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One daughter helps to marry the other.

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Summer is the mother of the poor.

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Democracy | Good | Means | Vision |

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