"To forego the pleasures of sense, and undergo……" — Robert Boyle
"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 resigned believing soul is likely to be guilty of; if fear itself, and even the fear of hell, may be one justifiable motive of mens actions."
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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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More Actions Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
— Red Auerbach
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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