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Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.

Christopher Marlowe

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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
Author
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Canterbury
United Kingdom
Kit Marlowe
Love
Cruelty
Pray
Praying
Men

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
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My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
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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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Love me little, love me long.
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Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
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Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
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Fornication: but that was in another country And besides, the wench is dead.
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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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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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Infinite riches in a little room.
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There is no sin but ignorance.
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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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Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
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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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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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