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title: "6 Moored Quotes by 6 authors"
description: "Browse 6 Moored quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Moored sayings and thoughts."
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> [Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/take-from-my-palms-to-soothe-your-heart-a-little-honey-a-little-sun/)

[Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/)

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> [Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/slowly-but-with-no-doubt-or-hesitation-whatever-and-in-something-of-a/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

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> [“I am safe. For one night at least. Safe, moored to this man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-gillard/i-am-safe-for-one-night-at-least-safe-moored-to-this-man/)

[Linda Gillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-gillard/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/linda-gillard-36778_moored_i-am-safe-for-one-night-at-least-safe-mo_515460.jpg)

> [The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-coward-wants-resolution-which-the-brave-man-can-do-without-he/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad5/henry-david-thoreau-20_anchors_the-coward-wants-resolution-which-the-br_1510326.jpg)

> [When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/when-a-great-ship-is-in-harbor-and-moored-it-is-safe-there-can-be-no/)

[Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/)

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> [I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/i-struggle-with-enormous-discrepancies-between-the-reality-of-2/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/770/sally-mann-15174_children_i-struggle-with-enormous-discrepancies-b_2505741.jpg)

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