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Confess and be hanged.

Christopher Marlowe

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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
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Canterbury
United Kingdom
Kit Marlowe
Hanged
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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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... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
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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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Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
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FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
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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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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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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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Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
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Infinite riches in a little room.
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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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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