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.
ROBERT BOYLEIn the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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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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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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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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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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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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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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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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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