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• In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

  Dean Koontz

  Night, Light, Giving

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• He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

  James Salter

  Reading, Color, People

  FaceBook post by James Salter from Mar 18, 2017

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• She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion. She felt as safe with him as she'd done with Iorek Byrnison the armoured bear.

  Philip Pullman

  Oxford, Enemy, Done

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

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• Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Strong, Stars

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• Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Way, Accepting, Grows

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• Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

  Richelle Mead

  Technology, Class, Pie

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• Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

  Bell Hooks

  Betrayal, Self Esteem, Lying

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• Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

  Brannon Braga

  Time, Believe, Journey

  "Fictional character: Jean-Luc Picard". "Star Trek: Generations", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Beauty and folly are generally companions.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Beauty, Beautiful Women, Folly

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• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Law, Violence

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• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Empowerment, Gender Equality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Men, Bankers

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• Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

  Jacob Abbott

  Children, Learning, Intellectual

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• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
  With dear companions now passed out of sight,
  Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,
  Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride
  Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts
  Will meet the offering, of so little worth,
  Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Wise, Pride

  "Poems". Book by Lucy Larcom, 1869.

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• Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
  What do you know of Love except the name?
  Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
  and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
  Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
  it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
  The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
  that root must be cherished with all one's might.

  Rumi

  Life, Mean, Pride

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.235, Shambhala Publications

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• Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Sorrow, Endurance

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• She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
  but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
  and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

  George Eliot

  Sad, Grief, Wrestling

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271

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• Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Unique, Two

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

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• Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

  Wise, Real, Choices

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• In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

  Zhang Zai

  Moving, Men, Justice

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• War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Liberty, Authority

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”

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• Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When a spouse dies, a companion will wonder. When financial hardship befalls a family, a father will ask. When children wander from the path, a mother and father will cry out in sorrow. Yes, 'weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' Then, in the dawn of our increased faith and understanding, we arise and choose to wait upon the Lord, saying, 'Thy will be done.'

  Robert D. Hales

  Mother, Morning, Art

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• Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Eye, Play, Soul

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

  Rumi

  Religious, Stars, Men

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