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Providence Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
- [D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul...
- I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that…
- Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
- America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
- The great object of Educationshould be commensurate withthe object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man…
More Providence Quotes
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. — Otto von Bismarck
- I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one… — Ben Affleck
- I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill
- What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann
- Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Laurence Sterne
- When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds
- I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions… — Richard Rumbold
- If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which… — Charles Hodge