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 HELL

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hell is paved with good intentions. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = (Quoted) Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1775) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bernard) Et metus ille foras praeceps Acheruntis agundus, Funditus humanam qui vitam turbat ab imo, Omnia suffuscans mortis nigrore, neque ullam Esse voluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit. The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure. Lucretius—De Berum Natura. III. 37. 6 Look where he goes! but see he comes again Because I stay! Techelles, let us march And weary death with bearing souls to hell. Marlowe—Tamburlane the Great. Act V. Sc.IH. L. 75. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Heaven | page = 363 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those HELL No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. I. L. 61. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Heaven | page = 363 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hail, horrors, hail, Infernal world! and thou profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. I. L. 251. Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 432. Hell Grew darker at their frown. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 719. n On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. » | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 879. Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. IV. L. 21. Myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide; To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. IV. L. 75. All hell broke loose. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. IV. L. 918. The gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame Far into Chaos, since the fiend pass'd through. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. X. L. 232. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Heaven | page = 363 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In inferno nulla est redemptio. There is no redemption from hell. Pope Paul III, when Michael Angelo refused to alter a portrait introduced among the condemned in his "Last Judgment." To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite. | author = Pope | work = Moral Essays. Ep. IV. L. 149. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = He knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. Proverbs. IX. 18. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Heaven | page = 363 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Do not be troubled by St. Bernard's saying that "Hell is full of good intentions and wills." Francis de Sales—Letter to Madame db Chantal. (1605) Letter XII. P. 70. Selections from the Spiritual Letters of S. Francis de Sales. Trans, by the author of "A Dominican Artist." Letter LXXT/ in Blaise ed. Quoted also in Letter XXII, Bk. II. of Leonard's ed. (1726) Collet's LaVraieetSolidePiele. Pt. I. Ch.LXXV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Baxter) Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons and the suit of night. Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 254. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Heaven | page = 363 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 38. Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 214. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. Southet—Colloquies on Society. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bernard}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = St. Austin might have returned another answer to him that asked him, "What God employed himself about before the world was made?" "He was making hell." | author = Southey | work = Commonplace Book, Fourth Series. P. 591. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Augustine}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. Swedenborg—Apocalypse Explained. Par. 1,144. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Heaven | page = 363 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nay, then, what flames are these that leap and swell As 'twere to show, where earth's foundations crack, The secrets of the sepulchres of hell On Dante's track? Swinburne—In Guernsey. Pt. IV. St. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Heaven | page = 363 }}