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• A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.

  John Lyly

  Feet, Wagons, Merry

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• And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Dream, Queens, Kings

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The High King”, p.248, Macmillan

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• With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Needs, Muse, Poet

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• Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22

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• High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Distance, Men, Class

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328

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• I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mother, Artist, Wife

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

  Leigh Hunt

  Perfect, Solitude, Want

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.37, London : Smith, Elder

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• A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coaches, Pleasant

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• Fire is a good companion for the mind.

  May Sarton

  Fire, Mind

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

  Samuel Johnson

  Husband, Love Is, Coquette

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• Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].

  Shams Tabrizi

  Fire, World, Abraham

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

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• Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

  Rose Macaulay

  Independent, Self, Parent

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• When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

  Ouida

  Lying, Passion, Long

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.383, Ouida

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• Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Half, Tongue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Yoke, Foals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.

  Jim Moore

  Block, Writing, Years

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• Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

  Charles Sumner

  Ignorance, Progress, Vices

  Charles Sumner (1849). “The Law of Human Progress: An Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady. July 25th, 1848”, p.26

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• I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Bread, Arsenic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

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• A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

  Richard Steele

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Champagne, Brilliance

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• Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

  Voltaire

  Greatness, Inseparable, Exaggeration

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.133

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• We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

  Artemas Ward

  Oil And Water, Enemy, Wish

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• Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

  George Bancroft

  Life, Law, Justice

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• Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

  Thomas Watson

  Father, Devil, Wages

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism”, Lulu.com

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