#companions

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. ↗

— Thomas More

#blooming #companions #faded #gone #her

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#companions #exception #greatest #himself #home

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ↗

— William James

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Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product. ↗

— Jacqueline McKenzie

#because #companionship #end #end product #first

How we need another soul to cling to. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#companionship #loneliness #need

Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#attachment #believe #believe-and-achieve #companions #companionship

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

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