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1 " Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. "
― Samuel Smiles
2 " Death may be peaceful but the circumstances leading to it are more often than not anything but. They slept that day with their eyes open, with death as the companion of their dreams. Maybe you would like to imagine that they were looking at each other, heads twisted at grotesque angles or at the fading sun. Their bodies were just empty vessels and their eyes were windows that showed only a vacant home. Maybe it was because they had passed on into a world where the sun never set or maybe even a world where nothing existed but an infinite pool of darkness. You can choose to believe anything you want up to the time Death comes for you. After that, well, we can only imagin "
3 " Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
4 " For some reason, notwithstanding the alienation and utter rejection, I consider myself a global citizen. They say misery calls for company and I’ve always been a man of funerals. The companion of the misfortunate, until they are not! "
― , An Ishmael of Syria
5 " 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 , Lightning
6 " Prayer is the companion of Bible study. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
7 " Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword. "
― Carlos Fuentes , Christopher Unborn
8 " Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step. "
― Alain Finkielkraut
9 " I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. "
― Henry David Thoreau , Walden
10 " The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law’s officers, which may at times assail the most honest. "
― Robert Louis Stevenson , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
11 " Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love. "
― Anne Rouen , Master of Illusion, Book Two (Master of Illusion #2)
12 " .. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them. "
13 " Music is the child of prayer the companion of religion. "
14 " I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. "
