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.
ROBERT BOYLEHe that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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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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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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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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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