Robert Boyle Quotes

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• This ocean of felicity is so shoreless and bottomless that all the saints and angels cannot exhaust it.
• The joys of heaven are like the stars, which by reason of our remoteness appear extremely little.
• To whet our longings for fruitive or experimental knowledge, it is reserved among the prerogatives of being in heaven, to know how happy we shall…
• The ravished soul, being shown such game, would break those leashes that tie her to the body.
• It is as impossible for an aggregation of finites to comprehend or exhaust one infinite as it is for the greater number of mathematic points…
• Unalloyed satisfactions are joys too heavenly to fall to many mens shares on earth.
• Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be delivered…
• Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into the…
• This sublime love, being, by an intimate conjunction with its object, thoroughly refined from all base dross of selfishness and interest, nobly begets a perfect…
• Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
• There is scarce anything that nature has made, or that men do suffer, whence the devout reflector cannot take an occasion of an aspiring meditation.
• The dimness of our intellectual eyes Aristotle fitly compares to those of an owl at noonday.
• An ancient musician informed me, that there were some famous lutes that attained not their full seasoning and best resonance till they were about fourscore…
• As rivers, when they overflow, drown those grounds, and ruin those husbandmen, which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, they fertilized and enriched; so…
• Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.
• He gives us in this life an earnest of expected joys that out-values and transcends all those momentary pleasures it requires us to forsake.
• To forego the pleasures of sense, and undergo the hardships that attend a holy life, is such a kind of mercenariness as none but a…
• Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness.
• It is fit for a man to know his own abilities and weaknesses, and not think himself obliged to imitate all that he thinks fit…
• I must not step into too spruce a style for serious matters; and yet I approve not the dull insipid way of writing practised by…

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