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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.

Robert Boyle

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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Book Ignorance Knowledge Learning Religious
The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.
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Biology Blood Body Inspirational Ordinary Principle Respiration Science
Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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Darkness Day Death Forever Understand
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
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
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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Creation God Philosophy Understand Universe
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
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
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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Alone Goodness Man Perfection Place
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
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men’s native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
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Best Children Death Man Philosophy Rise See Sun
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look’d upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.
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Attempt Call Chance Creature God Impossible Man Nature Try
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Doubt Faith Himself
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 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
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

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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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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