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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
I have an excellent internal compass.
If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.
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.
Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.