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From Quotes by Robert Boyle
- But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),…
- 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…
- That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ÎµÎ»Î±Ï„Î½Ï [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which…
- I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature more…
- The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of Gods own stamp.
- Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal…
- 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…
- You owe little less for what you are not, than for what you are, to that discriminating mercy to which alone you owe your exemption…
- 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…
- Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.
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