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Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

Thomas Aquinas

Giving, Dying, Ransom

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Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Struggle, Journey, Soul

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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Arms, Fortune, Egotism

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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Real, Ambition, Men

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Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

Marcus Garvey

Brother, Stars, Ambition

Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.

John Muir

Attitude, Wall, Thoughtful

John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.11, Vertebrate Publishing

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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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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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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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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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Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Winning, Circles, Hints

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An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.

Augusto De Luca

Mother, Grateful, Creativity

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Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?

Mary Cantwell

Strong, Hangover, Dark

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I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Nic Pizzolatto

Television, Firsts, Window

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Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

Sir Fulke Greville

Appreciation, Charm, Conversation

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The place that does
Contain my books, the best companions, is
To me a glorious court, where hourly I
Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

John William Fletcher

Kings, Book, Victory

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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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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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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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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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