Necessary Things Quotes - Page 2

• Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Levels, Beneficial

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• We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

  Plutarch

  Happiness, Lying, Men

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.303

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• Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Political, True Or False

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 83

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• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Children, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.104, CCEL

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• There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

  Aristotle

  Differences, Errors, Government

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Way, Eating

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Wine, Air, Two

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• I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of the Eucharist, but to revive wonder and marvel before the mystery.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Believe, Mystery, Wonder

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• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Boys, Men, Practice

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• Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

  Don Meyer

  Team, Tough, Enough

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