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.
ROBERT BOYLEDarkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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 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.
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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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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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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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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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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