01c. 1579 ADI 'm armed with more than complete steel,— The justice of my quarrel.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
03c. 1579 ADCome live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
04c. 1579 ADBy shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
05c. 1579 ADAnd I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
08c. 1579 ADNow will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
10c. 1579 ADWhen all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
11c. 1579 ADWas this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
12c. 1579 ADO, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
13c. 1579 ADCut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
14UndatedMoney can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
15UndatedCome live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures proveChristopher Marlowe / quote ↗
16UndatedMephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven,Am not tormented with ten thousand hellsIn being deprived of everlasting bliss?Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
17UndatedThink'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
18UndatedThis tottered ensign of my ancestorsWhich swept the desert shore of that dead seaWhereof we got the name of Mortimer,Will I advance upon these castle-walls.Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport,And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston!Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
20UndatedThus Time, and all-states-ordering CeremonyHad banished all offense: Time’s golden thighUpholds the flowery body of the earthIn sacred harmony, and every birthOf men and actions makes legitimate,Being used aright. The use of time is Fate.---From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad IIIChristopher Marlowe / quote ↗
21UndatedNay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,Yet would the Soldan by his conquering powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
23UndatedHeaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
24UndatedYet should there hover in their restless headsOne thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,Which into words no virtue can digest.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
Edsverb reading card◎MeditationsMarcus AureliusFree edition · US public domainMeric Casaubon translation (1634), later edited editionRelated reading on character and mind; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading cardΠThe RepublicPlatoFree edition · US public domainBenjamin Jowett translationRelated reading on justice; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card道Tao Te ChingLaozi (traditional attribution)Free edition · US public domainJames Legge translation; publication year not supplied in the linked digitized textRelated reading on peace; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗