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.
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
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