"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."
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"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."
"The best guide in life is strength."
"My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown"
"I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that."
"Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience."
"Let your conscience be your guide."
"Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor."
"People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards."
"It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life."
"The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day."
"The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue."
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"He guides me and the bird. In His good time!"
"The gods sustain and guide all their works."
"What we need is love, to guide and protect us on."
"Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide."
"The true guide of life is to do what is right."
"For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?"