Companion Quotes - Page 37

• There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Flower, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Old Curiosity Shop”, p.238

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• Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ease, Demand, Path

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 2, ch. 11

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• Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Misunderstood, Speech, Prophet

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• It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog

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• Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Cutting, Half, Enthusiasm

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• a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Secret, May, Safe

  Anna Katharine Green (2016). “DETECTIVE MYSTERIES Premium Collection: 48 Thriller Novels & Detective Tales in One Volume: That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, The Mill Mystery, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, The Millionaire Baby, The Mayor’s Wife, The House of the Whispering Pines…”, p.712, e-artnow

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• Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Real, Cutting, Emotional

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• Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?

  Robert Beverly Hale

  Want, Kind, Persons

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• This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Morning, Faithful, Soul

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Wise, Mother, Heart

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1926). “The letters of Mrs. Thrale”

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• My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

  Doris Grumbach

  Mother, Father, Water

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Guitar, Ideals

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• I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Institutions, Existence

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• Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Shy, Aptitude

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history.  It is the companion that dogs our every step.

  Alain Finkielkraut

  Dog, Inheritance, Steps

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• Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

  Chanakya

  Bad Friend, Light, Secret

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• Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Music, Prayer, Children

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• No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

  Henry Fielding

  Loss, Evil, Anxiety

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  God, Powerful, Teaching

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• It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Men, Play

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Queens, Prayer

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Chapter 6: "The Road to Heaven", 1834.

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• One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Long, Choices

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5

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• Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.

  Imagawa Sadayo

  Men, Evil, Water

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• The one thing you can give God that will truly impress God is freindship. God is an eternal companion who is with you all the time - never judges, just is.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Giving, Judging

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• Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Might, Prison, Illness

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