Christopher Marlowe Quotes
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Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
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Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
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Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
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Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
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Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss! . . . When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
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Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
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Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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Things that are not at all, are never lost.
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Accurst be he that first invented war.
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The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
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Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
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While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
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Strike up the drum and march courageously.
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All live to die, and rise to fall.
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Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.
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FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.
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What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
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Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
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I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
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Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
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More childish valorous than manly wise.
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Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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Love me little, love me long.
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Our swords shall play the orators for us.
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Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
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