Great Throughts Treasury

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The eye of the master fattens the horse.

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Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |

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Never was a mewing cat a good mouser.

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Future | Passion |

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Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

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Future | Hope |

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One should learn to sail in all winds.

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Future | Will |

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The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup.

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Books | Future | Wonder | Words |

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Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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Not all truths are proper to be told.

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Once resolved, the trouble is over.

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Church | Counsel | Rest | Counsel |

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One can't enter Paradise in spite of the saints.

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Calmness | Future | Good |

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The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.

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The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

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Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

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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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Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |

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When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

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Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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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 lion had need of the mouse.

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Little | Rest |

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

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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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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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