"The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle……" — Robert Boyle
"The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross winds or stormy gusts than prosperous gales."
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Robert Boyle
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65 Quotes by Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle has 65 quotes on this site.
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If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being…
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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors…
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
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And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when,…
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of…
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where…
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God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to…
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been…
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I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events…
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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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