Great Throughts Treasury

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When one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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The house completed, possession defeated.

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Will | Woman |

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Force |

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The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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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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Who by himself can do anything, do not wait for others to do.

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Commitment | Good | Means | Mystery | Object | Religion |

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To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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

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The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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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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The well-fed man does not believe in hunger.

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Means | Public | System |

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Those who begin many things finish but a few.

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Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

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To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

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