guiding-star

Others may provide the vessel its sails and rigging; she alone communes with the pilot, seats him at the helm, provides him with a compass, and before launching him upon the ocean of the world, points to him in heaven his guiding-star.

Women's Sphere of Influence on Civilization (1837) 2003

Others may provide the vessel its sails and rigging; she alone communes with the pilot, seats him at the helm, provides him with a compass, and before launching him upon the ocean of the world, points to him in heaven his guiding-star.

Archive 2003-05-01 2003

This year, the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting have chosen to give the Peace Prize to a man for whom the ideal of peace has been a guiding-star throughout his active political career - Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt.

The 1971 Nobel Prize - Presentation Speech 1971

Sweet thought! he from his holy sphere my guiding-star will be,

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

To his gray-haired teachings we have paid personal reverence, and we unaffectedly hope to have caught from his society and intercourse a spark of that professional enthusiasm which is the only true guiding-star of the plodding lawyer.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Were we, in a figurative sense, to choose a guiding-star, it would be a comet, we are so taken with flash and show.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

She took for her guiding-star -- theoretically -- the twin concepts of morality and duty as she had been taught to construe them.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

I think of the last pages of Motley’s Dutch Republic, with its eulogy on William the Silent so exquisitely closing: As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets.

V. On Reading for Examinations 1920

This time we are going to hold the thought: "I am unselfish in action, being and motive," and each time we go into the Silence, this unselfish spirit shall be the guiding-star of our thoughts.

The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It David V. Bush 1920

I trim it well, to be the wanderer’s guiding-star.

The Visionary 1917