Belladonna, I do not think it is prudent or 'provident' to turn down this offer.

She was a discreet, sober, 'provident' woman, and with great patience endured many afflictions.

Yet, as Smiles observed, ‘No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless 'provident' , or the drunken sober.’

I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let 'provident' direction guide my life.

Their deception is socially 'provident' , because it makes those people work hard, save, take risks and invent.

He proposed that, with respect to human evolutionary development, ‘what Nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly ‘- through natural selection - ‘man may do 'providently' , quickly and kindly ‘- through controlled breeding.’

Living 'providently' , he reached ninety years of age.