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rudder

«A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.»
«Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment»
Author: Owen Felltham | About: Humanity, Zeal | Keywords: liable, rudder, stranded, zeal
«He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.»
«Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.»
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
«A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.»
«The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder»
«The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses»
«A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: rudder, ship
«The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.»