Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
ROBERT BOYLEHe that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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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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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 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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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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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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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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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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