The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

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Strike while the iron is hot.

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For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

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All good things must come to an end.

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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

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