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• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Law, Violence

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• The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

  Dave Barry

  Fathers Day, Dad, Missing

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• Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Air, Sea, Earth

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.113, Discovery House

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• A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

  Galen

  Brain, Cold, Inseparable

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• Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Unhappy, Shelter, Comfort

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• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Baby, Teacher, Artist

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.186, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Running, Men, Risk

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• Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

  Alan Ball

  Terrible, Acknowledge, Terrible Things

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• A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Real, Self, Argument

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• What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lonely, Zoos, Animal

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• While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Loneliness, Solitude, Half

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2013). “Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master”, p.516, Hachette UK

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• In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

  Zhang Zai

  Moving, Men, Justice

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• War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Liberty, Authority

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”

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• Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When a spouse dies, a companion will wonder. When financial hardship befalls a family, a father will ask. When children wander from the path, a mother and father will cry out in sorrow. Yes, 'weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' Then, in the dawn of our increased faith and understanding, we arise and choose to wait upon the Lord, saying, 'Thy will be done.'

  Robert D. Hales

  Mother, Morning, Art

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• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Empowerment, Gender Equality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Men, Bankers

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• Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

  Jacob Abbott

  Children, Learning, Intellectual

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• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
  With dear companions now passed out of sight,
  Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,
  Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride
  Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts
  Will meet the offering, of so little worth,
  Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Wise, Pride

  "Poems". Book by Lucy Larcom, 1869.

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• Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
  What do you know of Love except the name?
  Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
  and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
  Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
  it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
  The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
  that root must be cherished with all one's might.

  Rumi

  Life, Mean, Pride

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.235, Shambhala Publications

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• Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Sorrow, Endurance

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• Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Unique, Two

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

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• I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names, Two, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.298, Yale University Press

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• Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

  Wise, Real, Choices

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• A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Men, Long

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