A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Edmund Waller

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
Ada Cambridge

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
Sam Brownback

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius

Conscience is a man's compass.
Vincent Van Gogh

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Joseph Cook

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Brad Henry

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.
Leonardo da Vinci

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
Michael Bloomberg

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.
Andrew Fastow

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.
Kathy Mattea

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
Steve Chabot

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

No, I did a film called Death and the Compass as well.
Alex Cox

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber