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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
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.
Weave the warp, and weave the woof,
The winding sheet of Edward's race;
Give ample room and read more
Weave the warp, and weave the woof,
The winding sheet of Edward's race;
Give ample room and verge enough
The characters of Hell to trace.
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.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
are in the depths of hell.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
are in the depths of hell.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]
From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]
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.
