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Own Quotes by Robert Boyle
- The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of Gods own stamp.
- By giving man a free will he allows man that highest satisfaction and privilege of co-operating to his own felicity.
- Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
- 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…
- These courtiers of applause deny themselves things convenient to flaunt it out; being frequently enough vain to immolate their own desires to their vanity.
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