paved 成语

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road to hell is paved...

(See the road to hell is paved with good intentions)

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the road to hell is paved with good intentions

good intentions achieve nothing without action, actions speak louder... Convert your charitable feelings into action! The road to hell is paved with good intentions!

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It's not enough to intend to do something, you must actually do it.

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road to hell is paved with good intentions, the

road to hell is paved with good intentions, the
Well-intended acts can have disastrous results, as in She tried to help by defending Dad's position and they haven't spoken since—the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This proverbial idiom probably derives from a similar statement by St. Bernard of Clairvaux about 1150, L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs (“Hell is full of good intentions or wishes”), and has been repeated ever since. [Late 1500s]