Richard Hooker Quotes

#1. I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.

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#2. We act insane, because if we didn't, we would most surely become insane.
- Hawkeye

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#3. 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.

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#4. He might make it, even if all I really did was hit him in the head with an axe.

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#5. From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.

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#6. God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.

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

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

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

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#10. Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

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#11. To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

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#12. Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ... especially the children of men.

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#13. Of two Evils we take the less.

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#14. The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

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#15. See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

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#16. Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

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#19. When Radar O'Reilly, just out of high school, left Ottumwa, Iowa, and enlisted in the United States Army it was with the express purpose of making a career of the Signal Corps.

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#20. When they awakened at four o'clock in the afternoon, all was quiet. Duke peeked out the door and closed it quickly.
'What do the initials M.P. stand for?' he inquired.
'Shore Patrol,' answered Trapper John.

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#21. For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.

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