William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."
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Companion
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Niccolo Paganini
Composer, Violinist
"I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion."
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"Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion."
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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
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"If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself."
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"Fire is a good companion for the mind."
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"Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness."
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"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."
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"There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion."
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"He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature."
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"As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness."
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"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."
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"I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms."
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"No possession is gratifying without a companion."
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"It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes."
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"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
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"Dolls are safe companions."
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"Beauty and folly are generally companions."
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"Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life."
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"My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar."
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"Beauty and folly are old companions."
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"I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with."
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