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Man Quotes by Robert Boyle
- 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…
- 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…
- He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
- Tis evident, that as common Air when reduc'd to half Its wonted extent, obtained near about twice as forcible a Spring as it had before;…
- Divers of Hermetic Books have such involv'd Obscuritys that they may justly be compar'd to Riddles written in Cyphers. For after a Man has surmounted…
- By giving man a free will he allows man that highest satisfaction and privilege of co-operating to his own felicity.
- 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…
- 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…
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