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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.

Robert Boyle

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Doubt Faith Himself
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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Heaven Invitation Low Reception
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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End Frame God Greatness Purpose World
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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Nature Preservation Universe
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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Chemistry Design Funny Luck Myself Philosophy See
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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Beauty Direction Love Mortal Passion Perfection
Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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Motion Science Sound
Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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Darkness Day Death Forever Understand
In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
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Clothes Fabric Security Stone
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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Book Necessary Ourselves Religious
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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Biology Blood Body Inspirational Ordinary Principle Respiration Science
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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Appearance Beautiful Person Sex Strange
From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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Himself Knowledge Work
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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Condition Death Glory Love Ourselves Rate Suffering
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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Age Beautiful Face Female Mindset Necessary Ruin
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Best Children Death Man Philosophy Rise See Sun

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 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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