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Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

— Richard Hooker

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Samuel Johnson in the preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

It is an axiom of Nature that natural desire cannot utterly be frustrate.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

The nature of every Law must be judged of by the end for which it was made, and by the aptness of things therein prescribed unto the same end.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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