362 HELIOTROPE HELL
For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing, and that they love.
Edmund Waller—Song. While I Listen to Thy Voice. St. 2.
I have been there, and still would go;
'Tis like a little heaven below.
Isaac Watts—Divine Songs. 28.
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There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
Isaac Watts—Hymns and Spiritual Songs.
Bk. II. 66.
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 838.
HELIOTROPE
Heliotropium
I drink deep draughts of its nectar
E. C. Stedman—Heliotrope.
O sweetest of all the flowrets
That bloom where angels tread!
But never such marvelous odor,
From heliotrope was shed.
E. C. Stedman—Heliotrope.
HELL
Curiosis fabricavit inferos.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
St. Augustine—Confessions. Bk. XI. Ch.
XII. Quoting an unnamed author.
Adapted from
"Alta, scrutantibus gehennas parabat."
God prepared hell, for those who are inquisitive about high things.
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Bailey—Festus. Sc. Heaven.
Hell is the wrath of God—His hate of sin.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. Hell. L. 194.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Quoted as Baxter's saying by Coleridge. Notes Theol., Polit. and Miscel. P. 259. Ed. 1853.
Hell is paved with infants' skulls.
Baxter. In Hazlitt—Table Talk. He was
stoned by the women of Kidderminster for
quoting this in the pulpit.
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L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Archbishop
Trench calls It "queen of all proverbs."
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Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. Pt. I.
Sec. LI.
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| text = <poem>But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.
Byron—CAiHe Harold. Canto III. St. 42.
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell!
Byron—The Giaour. L. 748.
Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.
In hell there is no retention.
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Panza, misquoting the saying.
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| text = <poem>Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
St. Chrysostom.
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From all sides there is equally a way to the
lower world.
Cicero—Tusc. Qwest. Bk. I. 43. 104.
Quoted as a saying of Anaxagoras.
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| text = <poem>There is in hell a place stone-built throughout,
Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,
Like to the wall that circles it about.
Dante—Inferno. Canto XVIII. L. 1.
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.
Dryden—Tyrannick Love. Epilogue.
The way of sinners is made plain with stones,
but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.
Ecclesiasticus. XXI. 10.
<poem>Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars,
and paled in with the bones of great men. Giles Ftrmin—The Real Christian. (1670) Quoted as a proverb.
<poem>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. Gray—Bard. Canto H.
<poem>El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.
Hell is full of good intentions. Adapted probably from a saying of Antonio Guevara, quoted by the Portuguese as "Hell is paved with good intentions, and roofed with lost opportunities."
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