A guide to those in doubt.
What by duty's voice is bidden.
There, where duty's star may guide,
Thither follow, that accomplish,
Whatsoever else betide. [ R. C. Trench ]
Custom is the guide of the ignorant. [ Proverb ]
In all things let reason be your guide. [ Solon ]
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it. [ George Herbert ]
God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. [ William Shakespeare ]
Zeal, then, not charity, became the guide. [ Pope ]
Do not take a blind guide nor a bad adviser.
Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]
Power above powers!
O heavenly eloquence!
That with the strong rein of commanding words,
Dost manage, guide, and master the eminence
Of men's affections, more than all their swords! [ Daniel ]
So doth Thy right hand guide us through the world
Wherein we stumble. [ Robert Browning ]
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. [ William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Sc. 5 ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
He that rides behind another must not think to guide. [ Proverb ]
Be it your care to follow; with me for your guide you will be safe. [ Ovid ]
Folly was condemned to serve as a guide to Love whom she had blinded. [ La Fontaine ]
Reason is the torch of friendship, judgment its guide, tenderness its aliment. [ De Bonald ]
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. [ La Bruyère ]
Reason is as it were a light to lighten our steps and guide us through the journey of life. [ Cicero ]
He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many. [ Carlyle ]
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. [ W. R. Alger ]
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. [ Cicero ]
Love is a malicious blind boy, who seeks to blind the eyes of his guide, that both may go astray together.
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us in solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. [ J. Collier ]
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment. [ Rabelais ]
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. [ Colton ]
Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny, and your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
Power above powers! O heavenly eloquence! that, with the strong reign of commanding words, dost manage, guide and master the high eminence of men's affections! [ Daniel ]
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. [ Emerson ]
To guide scoundrels by love is a method that will not hold together; hardly for the flower of men will love do; and for the sediment and scoundrelism of them it has not even a chance to do. [ Carlyle ]
A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]