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Providence: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. ee.— ADDISON — The Campaign.
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. ff.— THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY — The Pilot.
If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. gg.— WILLIAM BROWNE — Visions. Ch. V.
Words and feathers the wind carries away.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Words are women, deeds are men.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.— Shakespeare — S. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 99.
Would you know what money is? Go borrow some.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Yee have many strings to your bowe.— HEYWOOD- — Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. XI.
You are in some brown study.— LYLY — Euphues. Arber's Reprint.
1579. P. 80. You cannot know wine by the barrel.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.— X. PUBLIUS SYRUS — Maxims. 596.
You have a wrong sow by the ear.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. 580.
GEORGE COLMAN (the Younger)- Heir-at-Law. Act I. Sc. 2. You must lose a fly to catch a trout.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. I.
aa. Ch. IV. You must take the will for the deed. bb.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.
Dialogue II. You shall never want rope enough.— RABELAIS — Works. Prologue to the Fifth
cc. Book. Know thyself.-SOLON. Consider the end. -CHILO. Know thy opportunity.-PITTACUS. Most men are bad.-BIAS. Nothingisimpossible to industry.— PERIANDER
Avoid excess.— CLEOBULUS
Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.— THALES
dd. Mottoes of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. Inscribed in later days in the Delphian Temple. In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird In his good time. hh.— ROBERT BROWNING — Paracelsus. Pt. I.
Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.— COWPER — Light Shining Out of Darkness.
'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. jj.— COWPER — A Fable. Moral.
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, from the fly-sheet of a Bible, belonging to a pitman who resided near Hutton- Henry, in County of Denham. Whatever is, is in its causes just.— DRYDEN — Edipus. Act III. Sc. 1.
God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. C.— HENRI ESTIENNE — Le Livre de Proverbs
Epigrammatique. We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.— GOLDSMITH — Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. I.
To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.— LOWELL — The Present Crisis. St. 8.
*** his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 162.
What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 22.
All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 289.
But vindicate the ways of God to man.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 16.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 117.
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 271.
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 205.
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.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 87.
That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.— SAM'L ROGERS — On a Tear. St. 6.
Consider The sparrows of the air of small account: Our God doth view Whether they fall or mount, - He guards us too.— CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI — Consider. St. 2.
But he never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.— RICHARD RUMBOLD — On the Scaffold.
1685. See MACAULAY'S History of England. Vol. I. Ch. V. For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 17.
He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! S.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 43.
O God, thy arm was here; And not to us, but to thy arm alone, Ascribe we all!— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 111.
There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 10.
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.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 230.
He maketh kings to sit in soverainty; He maketh subjects to their powre obey; He pulleth downe, he setteth up on hy: He gives to this, from that he takes away; For all we have is his: what he list doe he may.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. V. Canto II. St. 41.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.— X. STERNE — Sentimental Journey.
And I will trust that He who heeds The life that hides in mead and wold, Who hangs yon alder's crimson beads, And stains these mosses green and gold, Will still, as He hath done, incline His gracious care to me and mine.— WHITTIER — Last Walk in Autumn. St. 26.
Deus haec fortasse benignâ Reducet in sedem vice. Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore these things to their proper places.— HORACE — Epodi. XIII. 7.
Deus quædam munera universo humano generi dedit, a quibus excluditur nemo. God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.— SENECA — De Beneficiis. IV. 28.
Nec mirum quod divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes. Now is it surprising, because it is Providence that has given us the country and the art of man that has built the cities.— VARRO — De Re Rustica. III. 1.
Dieu mesure le froid à la brebis tondue. God measures the cold to the shorn lamb.— HENRI ESTIENNE — Prémices, etc. P. 47.
Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence. Chance is a nickname for Providence.