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Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. – Helen Keller
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. – Saint Augustine
Good and Bad!!..we always get mixed with the real truths and paths concerning this two with FANATICISM and HYPOCRISY. Till Darkness envelopes and you awaken to the FATHER to learn about the real TRUTHS. But i pray ye to desire to be with his FLOCK or face condemnation....just DO WHAT THOU WILT ,conscience and HIS laws being your COMPASS!! – Moses Valmont
A sense of share is not a bad moral compass. – Colin
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it. – Sophocles
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it. – Sophocles, Electra
I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass. – Jeb Stuart Magruder
If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good! – Mehmet Murat ildan
If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. – William E. Channing
Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. – St. Augustine
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true. – D. March
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass. – LaDawnna Burnett, (1975-), Letters on Ethics
Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass. – LaDawnna Burnett (1975 - ), Letters on Ethics
Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land. – Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. – James Agee

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