Companion Quotes

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  Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Patience, Spiritual

  "The De Patientia of St. Augustine: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary" by Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Paul Bryan, 1963.

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• I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

  John Philip Sousa

  Travel, Son, Hunting

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• The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Bed, Ideals

  Interviewed by Terence M Green, recorded in J Madison Davis (ed) Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989).

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• A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Rich

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• We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Fearless, Danger

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

  Seneca the Younger

  Satisfaction

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 690-91, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

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• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Loneliness, Being Single

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Buckets, Hills, Draws

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

  William Penn

  Marriage, Wise, Wedding

  William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.26

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• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

  Pythagoras

  Friendship, Happy Life, Journey

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• When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

  Eda LeShan

  Single, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

  Peg Bracken

  Funny, Travel, Easier

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Body, Silent, Company

  1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Night

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

  Walter Scott

  Lonely, Loneliness, Thinking

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• Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

  Charles Lamb

  Boys, People, Way

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.58

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• We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Real, Mexico, Letters

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.19

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• Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

  Thomas Mann

  Horse, Animal, Doe

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• When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Cameras, Photographer

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• Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Important, Fields

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• Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

  Bernadette Peters

  Healing, Animal, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Country, Years, Land

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.1

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• Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Second Amendment, Mind Games

  "Jefferson: The face of the modern gun debate" by Christina Zdanowicz, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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