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 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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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 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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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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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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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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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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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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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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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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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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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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