Great Throughts Treasury

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Ezra Taft Benson

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing.

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Future | Global | Lord | Need | Principles | Reason | Crisis | Learn |

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Felix Adler

There is a great and crying evil in modern society. It is want of purpose. It is that narrowness of vision which shuts out the wider vistas of the soul. It is the absence of those sublime emotions which, wherever they arise, do not fall to exalt and consecrate existence.

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Difficulty | Heart | Influence | Meaning | Men | Right | Understand |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Every bachelor is a hero to some married woman.

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Fear | Reason |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

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Force | Malice | Reason |

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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People | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are often flourished.

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Italian Proverbs

Old hens make good broth.

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Eternal | God | Self | God |

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Italian Proverbs

That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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Italian Proverbs

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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Ability | Reason | Story | Thinking |

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Italian Proverbs

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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Italian Proverbs

To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

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Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

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Italian Proverbs

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home.

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Necessity | Self | Theoretical |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Italian Proverbs

Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.

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Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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Italian Proverbs

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | 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

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

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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