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• Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

  Frank Laubach

  Most Amazing, Conversation, My Thoughts

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.16, SPCK

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• Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men

  Hanshan

  Home, Cutting, Men

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• Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Journey, Years

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

  Cassandra King

  Sweet, Book, Journey

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• Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

  Cassandra King

  Sweet, Book, Journey

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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• A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

  James Madison

  Military, Long, Liberty

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

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• During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Men, Class, Long

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• I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Gratitude, Men, Perfection

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• It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. . . . I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don't really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through.

  Jessica Simpson

  Heart, Divorce, People

  "Jessica Simpson: "I'm in a Great Place in My Life"". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. August 3, 2009.

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• I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Fighting, Past

  Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford (2003). “Shadows Over Baker Street”, p.15, Del Rey

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• The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Love Life, Simple, Greatness

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• The burning soul, the burden'd mind,
  In books alone companions find.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Book, Soul, Mind

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• Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

  Tobias Smollett

  Nature, Should

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• I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion. Any man who will make his wife's comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Wife, Romance

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• It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

  Publilius Syrus

  Misery, Consolation, Wretched

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 995, 1856.

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• It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, May, Firsts

  William Shakespeare (2011). “A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together.

  Ann Aguirre

  Loneliness, Rain, Two

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• A murderer was a worthy companion.

  Philip Pullman

  Worthy, Murderer

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Brain, Noise

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.599, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

  James Madison

  Military, War, Long

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

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• A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Dying

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• Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Children, Wall, Faces

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• For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

  Barbara Tuchman

  House, Leaving, Cards

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