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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.
Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
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Kit Marlowe
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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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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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Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
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Fornication: but that was in another country And besides, the wench is dead.
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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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... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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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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