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Companion Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could…
- 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…
- The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one…
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- 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…
- 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…
- I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude
More Companion Quotes
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and… — Alan Ball
- He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow
- Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never… — Francis Beaumont
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation… — Joseph Addison
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the… — Buffalo Bill
- People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see… — Linda Blair
- For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous… — Erma Bombeck
- Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly… — Daniel Boone