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• Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Happiness, Light, Heaven

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• To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mistake, Wife, Found

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.373, OUP Oxford

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• It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Broken, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.491

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• Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

  John Bosco

  Snakes, Poisonous, Bites

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• Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

  David McCullough

  Poet, Whole Life, Entertaining

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• Good cheese needs good companions.

  James Beard

  Needs, Cheese

  James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

  Adam Smith

  Book, Reading, Grace

  Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.14

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• I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Animal, Numbers, Choices

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• So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

  William Morris

  Art, Lying, Hate

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Inspiration, Sheep

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.22, Harvest House Publishers

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• It is true, we do not like to lose a good, kind companion, a wife, a husband, a child, a brother, a sister, or any of our near and dear friends or relatives; but we have to do it, and it is right and proper that we should. They go a little before us; when we get there they will receive and welcome us and say, "God bless you, you have come at last." That is the way I look at it. I ex pect to strike hands and embrace my friends who have gone before.

  John Taylor

  Sister, Brother, Husband

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• Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Destiny, Grace

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• Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Physicians, Wells

  Letter to Ralph Allen, 13 September (1743)

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• What do you want in a female companion? What is the first thing that attracts you. Her ability to cook and keep house or is it the way she looks? It's not politically correct, GM hates it when I draw that analogy. But it's absolutely correct."

  Bob Lutz

  Hate, House, Female

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• California is very much my home, and has been for the last eight yeas. It doesn't matter where I am, the inner me stays the same, home is wherever I happen to be living with Tracey, my companion of the last eighteen years.

  Brian Williams

  Home, Eight, Years

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• I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Love You, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.128, Penguin

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• Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Noble, Holy, Whole

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• In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Reality, Style, Way

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• I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with.

  Chris Rock

  Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.

  Marlo Morgan

  Ideas, Opinion, Sometimes

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Explorers, Uncertainty

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Inspiration, Heaven, Soul

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• Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Solitude, Cherish

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• Men are four;
  He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him.
  He who knows not and knows not that he knows not. He is a fool; shun him.
  He who knows not and knows that he knows not. He is a child; teach him.
  He who knows and knows that he knows. He is a king; follow him.
  The heights by great men reached and kept
  Were not attained by sudden flight,
  But they, while their companions slept,
  Were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Kings, Children, Night

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