Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.


Joseph De Maistre

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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Nothing is intolerable that is necessary.
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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
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It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
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except to defend myself if necessary.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
ROBERT BROWNING
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
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Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.
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To assume is to know less than nothing.
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It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.
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any longer than is necessary.
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23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON
It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.
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Striving for the impossible is better than striving for nothing.
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing i...
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...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is...
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I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
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Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
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God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Nothing is forever except change.
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Nothing is forever. Except atoms.
DANNIKA DARK
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
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Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
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Remember, nothing hurts worse than pain.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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It is necessary for you to meditate and God will bless you abundantly
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
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I remember on one of my many visits with JOSEPH LEWIS I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your ow...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
JOSEPH BARTH
It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
JOSEPH FOUCHE
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The g...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark...
JOSEPH FARRELL
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to...
JOSEPH CANNON
We always plan too much and always think too little.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
JOSEPH ROUX
Perfection is the child of time.
JOSEPH HALL
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
JOSEPH ROUX
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT