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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]
Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than to read more
[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
[Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas,
quam quid edas et bibas.]
Better your room than your company.
Better your room than your company.
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.
No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
With girdled read more
No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
With girdled loins our lamplit race,
And each from each takes heart of grace
And spirit till his turn be done.