Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian
(Attributed)
Quoted in Samuel Johnson, preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755).
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Hooker, Richard
I pray that none will be offended if I seek to make the Christian religion an inn where all are received joyously, rather than a cottage where some few friends of the family are to be received.
Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian
(Attributed)
Unverified in Hooker's writings. Only appeared recently.
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1, ch. 1 (1594)
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