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• Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

  Franz Liszt

  Trying, Misery

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• Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Mistake

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• The rotten apple spoils his companion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Apples, Rotten, Standards

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.58, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

  Isaac Barrow

  Friendship, Faith, Book

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works”, p.78

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• My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

  Gary Busey

  Party, Kids, Dark

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• Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Genius, Literature, Nodding

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• Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Way, Virtue, Rough

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• You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

  Corazon Aquino

  Pain, Journey, Media

  Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (1986). “Democracy by the Ways of Democracy: Speeches of President Corazon C. Aquino, Official Visit to the United States of America September 15-24, 1986”

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Abuse, Pet, Pests

  "Inside the Minds of Animals" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Unhappy, Shelter, Comfort

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• My ideal travel companions are my family.

  Pharrell Williams

  Travel, My Family, Ideals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.

  Robert Winston

  Country, Successful, People

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• Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Children, Husband

  "Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley". Ensign magazine, p. 64, March 2001.

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• We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.

  Gene Wolfe

  Book, Men, Wind

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• I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Order, Space, People

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving, Constant, Persons

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

  Jacqueline Carey

  Despair

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

  Washington Irving

  Adversity, Silent, Innocent

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.230

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• Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Self Talk, Not Alone

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

  Christopher Marlowe

  Soul, Comfort, Kingdoms

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• There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Night, Dwarves

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Tablets, Harvest

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.89, Penguin

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• . . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Childhood, Mind, Miserable

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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