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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

— David Hume

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

— Robert Southey

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

— George A. Smith

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

— Joseph Butler

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

— Charles Spurgeon

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

— Plato

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

— Bertrand Russell

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

✗Opposing Perspectives

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

— George Herbert