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And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: The Campaign
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Fear not, but trust in Providence,
Wherever thou may'st be.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: The Pilot
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But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Maid's Tragedy (act V, sc. 4)
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The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXI, v. 6)
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If heaven send no supplies,
The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
Author: Sir William Browne
Source: Visions (ch. V)
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In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his good time.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Paracelsus (pt. I)
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God sendeth cold after clothes.
Author: William Camden
Source: Remains
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
[Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]
Author: William Camden
Source: Remains
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'Tis Providence alone secures
In every change both mine and yours.
Author: William Cowper
Source: A Fable--Moral
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Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face.
Author: William Cowper
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,
Author: William Cowper
Source: Light Shining Out of Darkness
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Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Oedipus (act III, sc. 1)
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God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.
[Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]
Author: Henri Etienne (Estienne)
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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. I)
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God sends cold according to Cloathes.
[God sends cold according to clothes.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.
[To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]
Author: George Herbert
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epodi (XIII, 7)
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Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: The Present Crisis (st. 8)
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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial
To my proportion'd strength.
Author: John Milton
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 87)
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Lap of providence.
Author: Humphrey Prideaux
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.]
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (XII, 1, 1)
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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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.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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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!
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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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?
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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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.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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