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Providence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
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- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson
- Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my… — Queen Victoria
- I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles… — Daniel Webster
- 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
- Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann
- I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions… — Richard Rumbold