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Letter "C" » compass
«A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.»
«A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Biographer,
Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
argosy,
compass,
nail,
placed,
rusty,
sway,
swaying,
sways,
wreck
«Conscience is a man's compass»
«And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: / And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: / From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Adar,
ascended,
bay,
compass,
fetched,
goings,
Hezron,
River of Egypt,
southward,
South Coast,
South Sea,
thence,
The Bay,
toward the sea,
to the south
«Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.»
«And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.»
«And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.»
«For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.»
«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.»
«A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.»