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• We are, because God is.
• Even God's providence Seeming estrang'd. -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh
• We must play God because the masses are ignorant. -- Liberal Rule #14
• The world 's a stage His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, First Day...
• The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such
  and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual....
• Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it. -- Mark Twai
• Cogito, Ergo Sum -- Descartes (1596-1650) -- "I think, therefore I am.
  >>>----- Variations on the Theme!...
• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard.
  They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. -- Barrow...