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Letter "H" » harbor
«This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach.»
«Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
away,
catch,
catch on,
catch up with,
Did,
disappointed,
disappoints,
discover,
dream,
explore,
explored,
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from the,
harbor,
harbored,
harbors,
into the wind,
now,
off,
ones,
safe,
safes,
safe harbor,
sail,
sails,
The Catch,
throw,
throwing away,
throw in,
throw off,
throw out,
throw up,
trade,
traded,
trade winds,
twenties,
twenty,
winded,
winds,
wound up,
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Occasions:
Graduation
«We rest here while we can, but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams, And we know by the morning, the wind will fill our sails to test the seams, The calm is on the water and part of us would linger by the shore, For ships are safe in harbor, but t»
Author: Michael Lille
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Keywords:
calling,
calm,
harbor,
harbored,
harbors,
linger,
lingered,
ocean,
safe harbor,
sails,
seam,
seams,
ships,
shore,
T,
The Water
«What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare»
Author: Daniel Webster
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Orator,
Senator,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
cent,
cheerless,
coast,
harbor,
inch,
Pacific,
Pacific Coast,
Pacific Ocean,
Public place,
public treasury,
rockbound,
the Pacific,
The Western,
Treasuries,
treasury,
uninviting,
Western
«Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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Keywords:
adding,
ambergris,
charging,
fulfilled,
geniuses,
harbor,
imagined,
oyster,
pearl,
Pearl Harbor,
sends,
wear off,
whale,
wholesome
«The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.»
«The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Keywords:
and how,
bars,
bottom,
chart,
charted,
charting,
harbor,
harbored,
harbors,
Keep On Running,
rocks,
rock bottom,
running,
sea,
steer,
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steering,
steers,
The Bible,
The Bottom,
The Sea
«We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.»
«Those who do not have love for the Lord within their hearts, harbor only false intentions and goals.»