A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The subject serves as both a guide for direction and a tool to correct mistakes.
- In plain terms
- This thing guides you and also stops you from going wrong.
- What can you take from it?
- True guidance includes both direction and correction.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you correct others?
- What guides your decisions?
Another view
The image of a rod implies punishment which may be controversial.
More from William Wordsworth
That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude.
Permalink to quote #151 Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Permalink to quote #153 A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company.
Permalink to quote #150
Related quotes
Also aber rathe ich euch, meine Freunde: misstraut Allen, in welchen der Trieb, zu strafen, machtig ist! Das ist Volk schlechter Art und Abkunft; aus ihren Ges…
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche quote #120 It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enri…
Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams quote #1 There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Hartley ShawcrossHartley Shawcross quote #1