Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The right man comes at the right time.

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Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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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

The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

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Life | Life |

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Italian Proverbs

When God will not, the saints cannot.

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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

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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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

The poor is hated by his neighbor, but the rich hath many friends.

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Better | Life | Life | Understand |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Who buys land buys war.

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Emotions | Thought | Thought |

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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 well-fed man does not believe in hunger.

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Means | Public | System |

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Italian Proverbs

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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Children | Day | Depression | Despair | Effort | Knowledge | Life | Life | Parents | Suicide | World | Wrong | Child |

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Italian Proverbs

Weddings and spiritual matters are heaven sent.

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Life | Life | Thought | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there's a will there's a way.

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Mind | Thought | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

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Love |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

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Better | Capacity | Love |

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