Great Throughts Treasury

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Felix Adler

The moral order never is, but is ever becoming. It grows with our growth.

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Criticism | Desire | Doubt | Faith | Improvement | Individual | Life | Life | Nations | Regard | Sacred | Intellect |

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Italian Proverbs

One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat.

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Death | Good | Hypothesis | Individual | Phenomena | Sense | Loss |

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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

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

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

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Better | Ethics | People |

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

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

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Focus | Knowledge | Mind | Reason | Research | Unique | Work | Following |

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

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

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Aid | Government | Need | Praise | Government |

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

A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

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Doubt |

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