Paulo Coelho
Writer
"The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for."
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Port
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"To reach a port we must set sail"
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"One can advise comfortably from a safe port."
Joseph Hume
Politician
"There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market."
Thomas Fuller
Physician
"The worse the passage the more welcome the port."
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"O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas."
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