Rare qualities may sometimes be prerogatives without being advantages; and though a needless ostentation of ones excellencies may be more glorious, a modest concealment of them is usually more safe; and an unseasonable disclosure of flashes of wit may sometimes… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross winds or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
As to the freeness or unmeritedness of Gods love, we need but consider that we so little could at first deserve his love, that… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
