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Do not be troubled by St. Bernard's saying that "Hell is full of good intentions and wills. FRANCIS DE SALES-Letter to MADAME DE 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 LXXIV in BLAISE ed. Quoted also in Letter XXII, Bk. II. of LEONARD'S ed. (1726) COLLET'S La Vraie et Solide Piété. Pt. I. Ch. LXXV. (See also BAXTER)

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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.”

SOUTHEY-Commonplace Book, Fourth Series. P. 591. (See also AUGUSTINE)

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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

SWEDENBORG-Apocalypse Explained.

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1,144.

Par.

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.

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In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.

SCOTT-Lord of the Isles. Canto I. St. 20.

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Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd
Out of the powerful regions under earth,
Help me this once.

Henry VI. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 10.

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Help me, Cassius, or I sink!

Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 111.

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And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 138.

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God helps those who help themselves.

ALGERNON SIDNEY-Discourse Concerning Government. Ch. II. Pt. XXIII. (See also CERVANTES)

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HEMLOCK

Tsuga Canadensis

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,

Wie treu sind deine Blätter.

Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit,

Nein, auch im Winter wenn es schneit,

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,

Wie treu sind deine Blätter.

O hemlock-tree! O hemlock-tree! how faith-
ful are thy branches!

Green not alone in summer time,
But in the winter's frost and rime!

O hemlock-tree! O hemlock-tree! how faithful are thy branches!

AUGUST ZARNACK'S version of Old German Folk Song. Trans. by LONGFELLOW-The Hemlock-Tree.

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HEN

Alas! my child, where is the Pen
That can do justice to the Hen?
Like Royalty, she goes her way,
Laying foundations every day,
Though not for Public Buildings, yet
For Custard, Cake and Omelette.
Or if too old for such a use
They have their fling at some abus
As when to censure Plays Unfit
Upon the stage they make a Hit
Or at elections seal the Fate
Of an Obnoxious Candidate.

No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,
Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.
OLIVER HERFORD-The Hen.

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All history is a Bible-a thing stated in words by me more than once.

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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. MACAULAY-History of England. Vol. I. Ch. I. (See also BOLINGBROKE) Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. MONTESQUIEU.

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[History] hath triumphed over Time, which besides it, nothing but Eternity hath triumphed

over.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH-The History of the World. Preface.

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In a word, we may gather out of history a

CARLYLE Quoted in FROUDE'S Early Life of policy no less wise than eternal; by the compariCarlyle.

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son and application of other men's forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH-History of the World. Preface. Par. IX.

(See also TACITUS)

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