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Guiding Star Quotes

[The romantic chivalric tradition] takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.
- J R R Tolkien

You are the guiding star of someone's existence
- Carroll Bryant

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
- H Rider Haggard

If we lift one weary hand which hangs down, if we bring peace to one struggling soul, if we give as did the Master, we canby showing the waybecome a guiding star for some lost mariner.
- Thomas S Monson

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
- Gustav Mahler

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