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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
[Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
[Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]
But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.
But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.
Hell is full of good intentions.
[Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
Hell is full of good intentions.
[Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in
with the bone of great men.
Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in
with the bone of great men.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
