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.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWEI am Envy, I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
More Christopher Marlowe Quotes
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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Make me immortal with a kiss.
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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
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If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
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More childish valorous than manly wise.
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Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir’d his overthrow.
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistopheles!
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Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
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O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
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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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There is no sin but ignorance.
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Love me little, love me long.
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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