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Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have read more
My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or
whether I am serious, just read more
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or
whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know
it myself.
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and
happy.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
