Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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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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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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