Tho when her ways he could no more descry, But to and fro at disaventure strayd; Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd
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Lodestar
/ˈləʊd.stɑː(ɹ)/
Synonyms for "lodestar" (85 found)
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intentionliving sapphireslodestonelucifermagnetmagnetic needlemagnetitemainspringmattermorning starmotivenorth starorbparamagnetphosphorphosphoruspoint of convergencepolar starpolarispolestar
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He was no wavering mariner; he had taken his course from a single lodestar, by which he had steered from the first day he had seen it in his heavens — the lodestar that had shone for him and would always shine.
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Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
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May we not define its true aim to be that of awakening in the heart those feelings towards moral and religious objects, which like attractions drawing towards the great lodestars of existence, shall ever keep the life right and stedfast?
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