| "Patience is the companion of wisdom." »Saint Augustine |
| "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death -- ourselves." »Eda LeShan |
| "I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal." »Eugene Delacroix |
| "We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures." »Susan Jeffers |
| "Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." »Samuel Smiles |
| "He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter." »Dr. Isaac Barrow |
| "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up." »Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible |
| "The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour." »P. G. Wodehouse |
| "Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife." »Andrew Schneider |
| "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 |
| "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." »Thomas Jefferson |
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