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Letter "P" » providence
«If Providence did beards devise, To prove the wearers of them wise, A fulsome goat would then, by nature, Excel each other human creature»
Author: Thomas D'Urfey
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beards, devise, excel, fulsome, goat, providence, wearer, wearers
«He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Truth
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aright, guide, In God We Trust, providence, safely
«Chance is a nickname of Providence»
«Behind a frowning providence / He hides a smiling face.»
«Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon»
«If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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appointed, cultivation, extirpate, improbable, providence, rum, savages
«Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Affliction
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afflictions, clay, confirm, constancy, furnace, furnaces, liquefies, liquefy, liquefying, melt, noble-minded, obduracy, providence, vile
«Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.»
«Chance is the providence of adventurers.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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adventurer, adventurers, providence
«GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
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active, Chaos, destroyed, evolved, evolves, evolving, providence, run for, systems, time and again
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