Great Throughts Treasury

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To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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The man who loves is easy of belief.

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Heart |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.

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Good | People |

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Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.

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People | Personality |

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There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

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People | Public |

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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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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The lion had need of the mouse.

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Little | Rest |

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There is a cause for all things.

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Intelligence | People |

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There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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What costs little is little esteemed.

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Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

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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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