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Definition of Needful

Needful

  1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
  2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite.

Needful Quotations

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 action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
Rowan D. Williams

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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