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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