Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.
--
Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Silas Weir Mitchell
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
When the captain throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character.
John (Presbyterian pastor) Hall
Fast-anchor'd isle.
William Cowper
To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
Emil Cioran
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