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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

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

– Homer

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

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

– George Bancroft

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.

– St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)

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

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

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

– Paul Valery

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

– Dr. Isaac Barrow

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

– Samuel Smiles

Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

– Samuel Smiles

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

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

– Eugene Delacroix

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

– Henry David Thoreau

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

– Saint Augustine

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

– Charles Caleb Colton

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

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

– Susan Jeffers

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

“In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them."

– Steve Maraboli

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