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So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

— 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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