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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.
Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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Make me immortal with a kiss.
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
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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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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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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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Blood is the god of war's rich livery.
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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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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
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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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Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
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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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While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
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