Le hazard est un sobriquet de la Providence.
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
'Tis Providence alone secures
In every change both mine and yours.
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 devil, and the devil made sin;
So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.
God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. Henri Ettenne—Le Livre de Proverbs Epir arammatigue. Quoted from an older collection, possibly Lebon's. (1557. Reprint of 1610)
We sometimes had those little rubs which
Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.
To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.
God sends cold according to clothes.
God sendeth cold after clothes.
As given in Camden's Remains.
"Deus haec fortasse benigna
Reducet in sedem vice.
Perhaps Providence by some happy change
will restore these things to their proper places.
Horace—Epodi. XIII. 7.
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| text = Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch
above his own.
| author = Lowell
| work = The Present Crisis. St. 8.
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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial
To my proportion'd strength.
| author = Milton
| work = Comus. L. 329.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or syRtems into ruin hurl'd,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. I. L. 87.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. I. L. 117.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise,
Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. I. L. 205.
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Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze.
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. I. L. 271.
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Lap of providence.
pRTDEAtnx—Directions to Churchwardens.
105. (Ed. 1712)
| seealso = (See also Homer under Gods)
P.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the
moon by night.
Psalm. CXXI. 6.
Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius
fuisset, quam providentiae munera in mutuam
perniciem converters.
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.
QunTrmAN—De Institutions Oratorio. XII.
1. 1.
Dieu modere tout a son plaisir.
God moderates all at His pleasure.
Rabelais—Pantagrud. (1533)
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. L. 43.
There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 10.
We defy augury: there's a special providence
in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis 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.
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 230.
O God, thy arm was here;
And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all!
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give.
He maketh kings to sit in soverainty:
He maketh subjects to their powre obey;
He pulleth downe, he setteth up on hy:
He gives to this, from that he takes away;
For all we have is his: what he list doe he may.
Spenser—Faerie Queenc. Bk. V. Canto II.
St. 41.
