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Letter "A" » anchors
«Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life»
«I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
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«I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor»
«And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.»
«And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, / Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.»
«Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!»
«Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope»
«Decided cases are the anchors of the law, as laws are of the state»
«If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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«I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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anchor, anchored, anchors, consider, constitution, constitutions, held, imagined, juries, jury, principles, trial
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