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• Never make a companion equal to a brother.

  Hesiod

  Brother, Sibling, Companionship

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• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  Daniel Boone

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

  Dean Koontz

  Loyalty, Grace, Despair

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1588, Bantam

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• You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Love, Honesty, Clean

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• If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

  Loretta Young

  Travel, Enthusiasm, Ifs

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• If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

  Luis Bunuel

  Queens, Weather, Smoking

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• I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

  Rumi

  Kings, Eye, Heaven

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

  Joseph Addison

  Graduation, Education, Depressing

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• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Genius, Fortune

  "Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1766 - 1848.

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• I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Animal, Dog Love

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• Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

  Walter Scott

  Dog, Animal, Toil

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “The Talisman. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series)”, p.258

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• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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• There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, School, Intelligent

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Opposites, Pleasure

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• Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

  George Henry Lewes

  Inspiring, Book, Delight

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

  John Lyly

  Wagons, Merry

  John Lyly, Frederick William Fairholt (1858). “The Dramatic Works: With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings : in Two Volumes”, p.198

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• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Real Friends, Advice

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• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Childhood, Gone

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

  James Boswell

  Love, Friendship, Real

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• Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Compassion, Justice, Choices

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.51, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.

  Plutarch

  Father, Taken, Opportunity

  Plutarch (2004). “The Life of Alexander the Great”, p.6, Modern Library

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• Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Heart, Rich Countries

  "Message to the Public," Times (London), 11 Feb. 1913

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• People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

  Linda Blair

  Dog, Religious, Animal

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• Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

  Buffalo Bill

  Country, Writing, Men

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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