The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.
ROBERT BOYLEDarkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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