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• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Laughter, Children, Wall

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• Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

  Fanny Burney

  Race, Imagination, Eccentric

  Fanny Burney (1793). “Evelina; Or, A Young Lady's Entrance Into the World ...”, p.144

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• Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Heartless, Survival

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• The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

  David Hawkins

  Pet, Friendly, Identity

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• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Ignorance, Holy

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.224, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

  Mao Zedong

  Swimming, Thinking, Security Guards

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• Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Unhappy

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• A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Book, Giving, Doe

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• You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call. I want your strength to help, your laugh to cheer; Heart, soul and senses need you, one and all. I droop without your full, frank sympathy; We ought to be together—you and I; We want each other so, to comprehend The dream, the hope, things planned, or seen, or wrought. Companion, comforter and guide and friend, As much as love asks love, does thought ask thought. Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, We ought to be together, you and I.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Lonely, Cheer

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• It's a full time job with a part-time companion.

  Sylvia Day

  Jobs, Part Time, Full Time Jobs

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.64, Penguin

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• Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Rivers, Tree

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• I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  Alan Moore

  Brother, Dragons, Black

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Jesus, Son

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• One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Deny, Horrible, Defects

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.111, Wordsworth Editions

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• Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Sacrifice, People, Helping

  Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.180

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• Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Men, Show Me, Wells

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2009). “As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship”, p.22, Moody Publishers

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• Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

  John Green

  Book, Ladders, Abyss

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• Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mother, Brother, Twelve

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Book, Eye, Interesting Conversation

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• In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Forever, Needs

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• When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Working Together, Causes

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• "It's OK," Puck says. She has a quick way of hiding her disappointment. If you're not looking for it, she's put it away somewhere before you know it was there. "You're busy." "No," I tell her. "No, I'll think about it. I'm not sure if I can get away." I don't know wheat I'm thinking. I cannot find the time to get away. I'm not a good dinner companion. But it's hard to think of that. Instead I'm wishing that I'd spoken sooner, before I'd seen her disappointment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Disappointment, Thinking, Wish

  "The Scorpio Races". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, October 18, 2011.

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• If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Kings, Real, Men

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• True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Godly, Light

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