He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
ROBERT BOYLEGod is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.
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The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
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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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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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another’s learning.
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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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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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The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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