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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.

Robert Boyle

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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Nature Preservation Universe
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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Creation God Philosophy Understand Universe
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.
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Ambition Appearance Man Nature World
In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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Book Ignorance Knowledge Learning Religious
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Doubt Faith Himself
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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Biology Blood Body Inspirational Ordinary Principle Respiration Science
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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Alone Goodness Man Perfection Place
As 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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Best Children Death Man Philosophy Rise See Sun
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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Heaven Invitation Low Reception
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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Appearance Beautiful Person Sex Strange
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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Leaving Myself Privacy Success Thinking
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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Age Beautiful Face Female Mindset Necessary Ruin
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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Attempt Call Chance Creature God Impossible Man Nature Try
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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End Frame God Greatness Purpose World
God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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Author Establishment Freedom God Law Motion Universe
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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Beauty Direction Love Mortal Passion Perfection

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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