Compass Quotes
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Conscience is a man's compass.
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I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.
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It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
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Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
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When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.
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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination.
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I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path.
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Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.
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So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.
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The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness...
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
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There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
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I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.
