In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
ROBERT BOYLEAs 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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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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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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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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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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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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