Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

Better your room than your company.

Better your room than your company.

Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.

Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.

And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace that was given unto me, read more

And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave me and
Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto
the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after read more

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after all.

If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
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If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war: since that to both
It stands in like request?

A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo read more

A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]