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“To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.
[To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things
to their proper places.
[Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna
Reducet in sedem vice.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epodi (XIII, 7)
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“Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Present Crisis (st. 8)
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“Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial
To my proportion'd strength.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Comus (l. 329)
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“Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 117)
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“Who finds not Providence all good and wise,
Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 205)
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“Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 271)
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“Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 87)
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“Lap of providence.”
Humphrey Prideaux Quotes Source: Directions to Churchwardens (p. 105), (ed. 1712)
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“For it would have been better that man should have been born
dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ
the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
[Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset,
quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: De Institutione Oratoria (XII, 1, 1)
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“There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.”
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes |
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“God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.”
Francis Bacon Quotes |
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“God's providence is on the side of clear heads.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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“Out of the sea
the sun aborning
Not adorned but
all adorning
with his awesome light
of morning
says to you
Come! My Mavoorning!”
Saiom Shriver Quotes |
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“The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.”
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