God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
ROBERT BOYLEThe 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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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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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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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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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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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 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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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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