Needful Quotes
72 quotes by 60 authors
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth…
— Janet McKenzie Hill
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Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through…
— Paul of the Cross
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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of…
— Charles Darwin
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Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.
— John McLeod
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and…
— George Eliot
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This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.
— Robert Hayden
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It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is…
— Carl Jung
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Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
— Helen Hunt
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But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful…
— Benedict of Nursia
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The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
— Philip Wylie
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Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you…
— Guy Finley
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'We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are renewed by holy…
— Tikhon of Zadonsk
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. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you…
— William Shakespeare
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