Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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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

When one door closes another opens.

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Italian Proverbs

The house completed, possession defeated.

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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

The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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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

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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Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

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Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

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Italian Proverbs

Words are female, deeds are male.

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Creed | Disbelief | God | Truth | Will | God |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.

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Earth | Order | Will |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

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Better | Cause | Peril | Time | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Who troubles others has no rest himself.

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Belief | Compassion | Desire | God | Human race | Love | Means | Race | Will | God |

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