Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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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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Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

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Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

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Shame take him that shame thinketh.

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Love | People |

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Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

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Office | People | Question | Will |

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That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

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People | Present | Relationship |

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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

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Truth | Understand |

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Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

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People | Gossip |

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Italian Proverbs

No one ever kicks a dead dog.

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Art | Means | People | Art |

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One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

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Italian Proverbs

One eye of the master sees more than four eyes of his servants.

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Nothing | People |

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Italian Proverbs

Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily.

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Belief | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

One devil knows another.

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Truth | Vision |

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Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Some things can be improved by training, others require innate talent.

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Modesty | Teach | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

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Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

The fruit of a good tree is also good.

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Need | People | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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Italian Proverbs

Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.

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Government | Guilt | People | Public | Truth | Warning | Government |

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