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Tag Name "Hoist" (14)

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Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
Robert Southwell
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Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.
Bela Kiraly
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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
Francois Fenelon
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There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.
James Sallis
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The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
Tom Stoppard
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You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.
Yasser Arafat
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The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
Douglas MacArthur
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.
Honore de Balzac
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When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.
Lu Xun
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For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.
William Shakespeare