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— Edmund Burke"The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them."
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Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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