Great Throughts Treasury

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The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.

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Vision | Work |

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The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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When the head aches all the members languish.

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Death | Order |

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Who has no shame all the world is his own.

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Power |

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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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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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When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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There is never enough where nought is left.

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Better | Change | Motives | Work | Understand |

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To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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Who hath no courage must have legs.

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Events | War |

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The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.

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

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The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

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Global | Sense | Work |

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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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