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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Robert Boyle

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
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
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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Goodness Learning Myself Philosophy Understand
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
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
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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Chemistry Design Funny Luck Myself Philosophy See
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
Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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Deep Missing Philosophy Seek Worth
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
From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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Himself Knowledge Work
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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Condition Death Glory Love Ourselves Rate Suffering
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Doubt Faith Himself
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
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
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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Book Necessary Ourselves Religious

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