Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
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The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence
Jeremiah Day
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck
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My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.
Victor Hugo
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Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Thomas Sydenham
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring
Peter De Vries
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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life
Voltaire
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When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one
George Washington
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And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: The Campaign
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The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. CXXI, v. 6)
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In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his good time.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: Paracelsus (pt. I)
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
[Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]
William Camden
Quotes , Source: Remains
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'Tis Providence alone secures
In every change both mine and yours.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: A Fable--Moral
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Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Light Shining Out of Darkness
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God made bees, and bees made honey,
God made man, and man made money,
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;
So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
- transcribed by James Henry Dixon,
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Light Shining Out of Darkness
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God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.
[Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]
Henri Etienne (Estienne)
Quotes , Source: Le Livre de Proverbs Epigrammatique
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We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to
enhance the value of its favours.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. I)
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God sends cold according to Cloathes.
[God sends cold according to clothes.]
George Herbert
Quotes , Source: Jacula Prudentum
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