PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
Interpretation
Providential refers to unexpected benefits in a person's life, often interpreted as divine intervention or fortunate occurrences.
Ambrose Bierce defines 'providential' as the unexpected and conspicuous benefits that arise in an individual's life, suggesting a sense of fortune or serendipity. The term emphasizes how situations can align in one's favor, often beyond one's control, leading to beneficial outcomes that may feel divinely orchestrated.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about how unexpected events can lead to positive changes in life.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."
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