Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
ROBERT BOYLEDarkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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 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 would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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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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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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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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