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• Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

  Jack London

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then.

  Diana Gabaldon

  War, Men, Light

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “Outlander: (Outlander 1)”, p.315, Random House

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• My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others play. When I meet myself and find that the truth of life is not the dream of tender age ... but the fire within me that creates the work of art.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Dream, Art, Loneliness

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• Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit. He is above his companions. A hieroglyphic is a spell. The gnostic dogma is cuneiform writing to the million. Moreover, the vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself in a child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shells.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Children, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Home, Dark

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• Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

  Linda Blair

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Bird

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• Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.

  Kay Arthur

  God, Christian, Pain

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• It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

  Alexander Woollcott

  Marriage, Bed, Instance

  Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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• How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Christian, Determination, Children

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• My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Loyal, Constant

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• Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Serenity, Groups, Judgment

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• The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Long, Pleasure, Periods

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• As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Fearlessness, Falsehood

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1948). “Nehru on Gandhi”, New York : J. Day Company

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• But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

  Jason Mraz

  Heart, Guitar, Voice

  "Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 1, 2012.

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• Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard
  work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

  Anne Lamott

  Hard Work, Wife, Age

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• In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Hiking, Civilization

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• I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

  Niccolo Paganini

  Guitar, Harmony, Constant

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• Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Arms, Binding

  George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.337, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Hymns are companions for life travelers.

  Andy Griffith

  Hymns, Traveler

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• It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

  Maria Montessori

  Errors, Feelings, Friendly

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• A glorious life is filled with companions who have open hearts.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Glorious Life, Life Is

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

  George Foreman

  Dog, Work Out, Opponents

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• Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese desert as fellow passengers cheer. Yes, there's light at the heart of this book; but darkness too, as the world and the traveler unravel and re-ravel, fall together, come apart. Shepard proves the best sort of traveling companion -- lively, observant, incisive, eloquent, charmed by the strange and familiar, the old and new. Climb aboard these poems. Enjoy the ride.

  Charles Harper Webb

  Cheer, Spring, Fall

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• Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.

  Anna Banks

  Morning, Escaping, People

  Anna Banks (2012). “Of Poseidon”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...

  James Dwight Dana

  Beautiful, Nature, Memories

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