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He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Robert Boyle

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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Himself Knowledge Work
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
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Author Book Invention Thinking
It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.
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Appearance Beautiful Person Sex Strange
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Doubt Faith Himself
Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.
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Beauty Direction Love Mortal Passion Perfection
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
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Leaving Myself Privacy Success Thinking
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
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Age Beautiful Face Female Mindset Necessary Ruin
In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
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Clothes Fabric Security Stone
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.
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Chemistry Design Funny Luck Myself Philosophy See
He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
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Heaven Invitation Low Reception
I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
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Ambition Appearance Man Nature World
Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.
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Condition Death Glory Love Ourselves Rate Suffering
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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Nature Preservation Universe
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
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End Frame God Greatness Purpose World
Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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Deep Missing Philosophy Seek Worth
God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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Author Establishment Freedom God Law Motion Universe

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

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