Aim Quote by Nathaniel Cotton

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep,…

— Horace

“Naught's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in…

— William Shakespeare

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be…

— George Washington

“Providence is nothing more than a belief in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth, brought to bear on our present blessings…

— Kevin DeYoung

“The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it…

— Robert E. Lee

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains…

— Samuel Butler

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of…

— Horace

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to…

— William Wilberforce

Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

— George Whitefield

“How strange a Chequer Work of Providence is the Life of Man! and by what secret differing Springs are the Affections hurry'd about as…

— Daniel Defoe