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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
[Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Confessions (bk. XI, ch. XII)
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Heaven)
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Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Hell, l. 194)
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Hell is paved with infants' skulls.
Author: Richard Baxter
Source: in Hazlitt's "Table Talk"
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
[Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]
Author: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Source: Archbishop Trench called it the "queen of all proverbs"
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The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end
thereof is the pit of hell.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XXI, v. 10)
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Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming:
it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the cheif ones of the
earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the
nations.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XIV, v. 9)
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But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
are in the depths of hell.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. IX, v. 18)
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The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel
sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. LI)
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 42)
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Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Giaour (l. 748)
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In hell there is no retention.
[Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (I, 25), Sancho Panza, misquoting the saying
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (I, 25), Sancho Panza, misquoting the saying
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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusc. Quoest. (bk. I, 43, 104), quoted as a saying of Anaxagoras
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusc. Quoest. (bk. I, 43, 104), quoted as a saying of Anaxagoras
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout,
Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,
Like to the wall that circles it about.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (canto XVIII, l. 1)
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We spirits have just such natures
We had for all the world, when human creatures;
And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,
Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Tyrannic Love (epilogue)
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Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in
with the bone of great men.
Author: Giles Firmin
Source: The Real Christian, quoted as a proverb
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Author: Giles Firmin
Source: The Real Christian, quoted as a proverb
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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.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Bard (canto II)
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Hell is full of good intentions.
[Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Bard (canto II)
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit,
Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
Author: Dorothy Gilman
Source: None
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Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
Author: William M. Holden
Source: None
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Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Author: Turkish Proverb
Source: None
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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: None
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Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Author: Will Carleton
Source: None
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Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
Author: A. W. Tozer
Source: None
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.
Author: William T. Sherman
Source: None
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