Advantage Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their…

— William Penn

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore…

— Isaac Barrow

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to…

— Joseph Addison

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without…

— Samuel Johnson

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has…

— Samuel Johnson

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

— Abraham Lincoln

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

— Daniel Defoe

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the…

— Adolf Hitler

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

— Francis Bacon