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.
ROBERT BOYLEI think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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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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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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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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 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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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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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