Quotes with providence

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  • Abbe Pierre Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll 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
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Marquis de Sade The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Mark Twain There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Leviathan ch. 31
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • William Shakespeare We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Hugh Blair Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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