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.
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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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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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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