God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
ROBERT BOYLEExalt 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.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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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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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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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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 would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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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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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