Top Providence Quotes
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. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
William Lilly
I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
Anne Hutchinson
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
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Laurence Sterne 
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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. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll 
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I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
William Lilly
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I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
Anne Hutchinson
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
John George Nicolay
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell
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Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
James K. Polk
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Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
John Woolman
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Robert E. LeeOtto von Bismarck MaimonidesHoratio NelsonEzra StilesDonald CargillMax FrischGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelOliver CromwellAnne HutchinsonNorman LammJerry LawlerJames OtisJohn WoolmanAlphonse de Lamartine
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