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      "text": "Ay, Faustus, now hast thou no hope of heaven\n\nTherefore despair! Think only upon hell,\n\nFor that must be thy mansion, there to dwell.",
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      "text": "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,\n\nAnd burnt the topless towers of Ilium?\n\nSweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!",
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      "text": "If we say that we have no sin\n\nWe deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.\n\nWhy then, belike, we must sin,\n\nAnd consequently die.\n\nAy, we must die an everlasting death.",
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      "text": "O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!\n\nThe stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,\n\nThe Devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd.\n\nO, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?\n\nSee, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!\n\nOne drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ.",
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      "text": "When all the world dissolves,\n\nAnd every creature shall be purified,\n\nAll places shall be hell that are not heaven.",
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      "text": "Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,\n\nAnd then thou must be damn'd perpetually!\n\nStand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,\n\nThat time may cease, and midnight never come;\n\nFair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make\n\nPerpetual day; or let this hour be but\n\nA year, a month, a week, a natural day,\n\nThat Faustus may repent and save his soul.",
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