Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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The right man comes at the right time.

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

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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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When one door closes another opens.

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The house completed, possession defeated.

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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's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The mother of idiots is always pregnant.

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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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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

To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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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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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 his head is broken he puts on his helmet.

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Ability | Unity |

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