"And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!"

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.

"There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?"

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

"And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling."

The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 21.

"What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men."

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

"In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost."

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555.

"Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way."

Paradise Lost. Book xii. Line 645.

"Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee."

Alexander's Feast. Line 97.

"And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare."

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.

"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,-- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book xv. The Worship of Æsculapius, Line 155.

"I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue."

Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth).

"How sweet an Ovid, Murray was our boast!"

The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 169.

"We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours."

Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. i.

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."

Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians. Vol. vii. p. 50.

"'T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours."

A Fable. Moral.

"Behind a frowning providence He hides a shining face."

Light shining out of Darkness.

"In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."

The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. (From Schiller.)

"Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,--imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of--the air!""

Richter. Edinburgh Review, 1827.

"Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be."

The Pilot.

"Even God's providence Seeming estrang'd."

The Bridge of Sighs.

"While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled."

Trust in Providence.

"It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one."

The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii.

"If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you."

Rudens. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3. (1229.)

"They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen."

The Art of Love. i. 99.

"Nothing is stronger than custom."

The Art of Love. ii. 345.

"Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion."

Metamorphoses. i.

"It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul."

Metamorphoses. xiii.

"The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report."

Fasti. iv. 311.

"We should provide in peace what we need in war."

Maxim 709.

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

De Providentia. 5, 9.

"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."

Discourses. Chap. xvi.

"The ways of the gods are full of providence."

Meditations. ii. 3.

"He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies."

Aristotle. xiii.

"The world 's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts."

First Week, First Day.

"Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men."

The Bible, New Testament. Romans xii. 17.

"He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him."

"The Birthday of the Infanta", The House of Pomegranates (1892)

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed."

Quoted by Pyarelal Nayyar in Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase (Volume 10), page 552 (1958)

"Italy has shown that there is a way of fighting the subversive forces which can rally the masses of the people, properly led, to value and wish to defend the honour and stability of stabilized society. She has provided the necessary antidote to the Russian poison. Hereafter no great nation will be unprovided with an ultimate means of protection against the cancerous growth of Bolshevism."

Press statement from Rome (20 January 1927), as quoted in Introduction: A Political-Biographical Sketch by Tariq Ali in Class War Conservatism and Other Essays (2015) by Ralph Miliband, with date of quote given in Go Betweens for Hitler by

"We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well. We have, I believe, within us the life-strength and guiding light by which the tormented world around us may find the harbour of safety, after a storm-beaten voyage."

At Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada, November 9, 1954 ; as cited at The Churchill Centre.