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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.