Providence directs the dice. [ Proverb ]

Reason raise over instinct as you can.
In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. [ Pope ]

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. [ Addison ]

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. [ Milton ]

The error of our eye directs our mind: What error leads must err. [ William Shakespeare ]

Knowledge directs practice; but yet practice increases knowledge. [ Proverb ]

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. [ Swift ]

Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable. [ John Ruskin ]

The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations; she conducts it along the impressible years of childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has received from maternal care and love. [ D. Webster ]

As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]