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Letter "C" » companions
«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
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Author)
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Keywords:
aging,
awed,
bats,
bloodied,
breathe,
care for,
companions,
dearest,
delicate,
eaten,
Everything is Beautiful,
fits,
fray,
frayed,
fraying,
frays,
gnaw,
gnawed,
gnaws,
gnaw at,
imperfections,
nibble,
nibbled,
nibbling,
overwhelmingly,
scarred,
shines,
shining,
splinter,
splintered,
splintering,
splinters,
survivor,
washed,
wondering,
wreck,
wrecking
«Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.»
«He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh»
«If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.»
Author: George Sand
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Keywords:
companions,
despised,
exploit,
exploited,
exploits,
fidelity,
mocked,
reduced,
servants,
status,
subject to,
The Exploited,
treated,
wives
«Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
companions,
flight,
heights,
in flight,
in height,
kept,
Night,
obtained,
reached,
sleep out,
sleep over,
slept,
sudden,
take flight,
The Night,
toiled,
toiling,
upward,
while
«For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.»
«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 which he hears, however measured or far away.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Music,
Relationships
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Keywords:
away,
companions,
different,
drummer,
far,
far and away,
hears,
hears a different drummer,
however,
keep away,
keep pace,
keep step,
measured,
music,
pace,
paced,
paces,
pacing,
perhaps,
step
«If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.»
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
ail,
apology,
companions,
couch,
distress,
forsake,
holiest,
reformer,
righted,
saddened,
saddening,
saddens,
Son of,
Son of God
«For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.»