Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
ROBERT BOYLEFemale 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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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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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 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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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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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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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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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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 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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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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