Good intentions Quote by Robert Southey

“It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.”

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Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

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Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

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