Providence

Famous quotes containing the word providence:

    “Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
    The world was all before them, where to choose
    Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
    They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow
    Through Eden took their solitary way.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Other nations have tried to check ... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”
    —John Louis O’Sullivan (1813–1895)

    “Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)