Quotes 1 till 18 of 18.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778 -
Men are better companions before their success than after it, for they have so much more leisure.
Commonplace book -
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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The wonder we often express at our neighbours keeping dull company, would lessen if we reflected that most people seek companions less to be talked to, than to talk.
Thoughts (1754) -
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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