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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
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Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
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Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the doveThat is--more knave than fool.
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Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
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Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
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What feeds me destroys me.
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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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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
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I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
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Fornication: but that was in another country And besides, the wench is dead.
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All live to die, and rise to fall.
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Love me little, love me long.
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!
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It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
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Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
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