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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so read more
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face.
Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face.
God made bees, and bees made honey,
God made man, and man made money,
Pride made the read more
God made bees, and bees made honey,
God made man, and man made money,
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;
So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
- transcribed by James Henry Dixon,
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
For it would have been better that man should have been born
dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather read more
For it would have been better that man should have been born
dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ
the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
[Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset,
quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]
