PROVIDENCE

Related Subjects: Destiny, Fate, God

1. Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

2. Anyone thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.—EPICTETUS, Discourses
   

3. Why doth IT so and so, and ever so,
   This viewless, voiceless Turner of the
   Wheel?—THOMAS HARDY, The Dynasts
   

4. Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.—HAWTHORNE, The House of the Seven Gables
   

5. Remember the wheel of Providence is always in motion; and the spoke that is uppermost will be under; and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.—PHILIP HENRY
   

6. The lap of providence.—HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX, Directions to Churchwardens
   

7. Providence provides for the provident.—Proverb
   

8. There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
   Rough-hew them how we will.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

9. 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. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet PRUDENCE PRUDENCE
   

10. O God, thy arm was here:
    And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
    Ascribe we all!—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

11. Arming myself with patience
    To stay the providence of some high powers
    That govern us below.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

12. But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
    Direct my sail!—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

13. A greater power than we can contradict
    Hath thwarted our intents.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

14. Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.—BERNARD SHAW, Heartbreak House
    

15. There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.—MARK TWAIN, More Tramps Abroad