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Lodestar

The leading-star by which mariners are guided; the pole-star.

“Your eyes are lodestars.” —Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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