Great Throughts Treasury

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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

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

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

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.

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Freedom | God | Order | Soul | Struggle | Wants | God |

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Italian Proverbs

Who would have many friends let him test but few.

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Battle | God | Kill | Language | Wills | God |

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Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions; transparency is politics' management of mistrust.

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Cult | Language | Myth | Paradise | People | Reality | Religion | Sense | Story | World |

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

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

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Art | Heart | Language | Religion | Art |

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