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01c. 1579 AD

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe / quote

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02c. 1579 AD

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

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03c. 1579 AD

Make me immortal with a kiss.

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04c. 1579 AD

Hell is just a frame of mind.

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05c. 1579 AD

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy 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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06c. 1579 AD

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.

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07c. 1579 AD

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

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08c. 1579 AD

Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is must we ever be.And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not heaven.

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09c. 1579 AD

YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils,Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame,Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name,Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall,And welter in thy gore.LANCASTER:Monster of men!That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to armsAnd bloody wars so many valiant knights;Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death!King Edward is not here to buckler thee.

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10c. 1579 AD

But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1

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11c. 1579 AD

O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appear'd to hapless Semele; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azur'd armsExcerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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12c. 1579 AD

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

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13c. 1579 AD

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

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14c. 1579 AD

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

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15c. 1579 AD

What virtue is it that is born with us?Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,Until some honorable deed be done.----From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad I

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16c. 1579 AD

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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17c. 1579 AD

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

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18c. 1579 AD

To undo a Jew is charity and not sin.

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19c. 1579 AD

Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.

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20c. 1579 AD

Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.

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21c. 1579 AD

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

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22c. 1579 AD

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

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23c. 1579 AD

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

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24c. 1579 AD

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

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