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harbour

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1. harbour - Noun

2. harbour - Verb

3. Harbour - Proper noun

Meaning

maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

a place of refuge and comfort and security

a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

hold back a thought or feeling about

keep in one's possession; of animals

secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)

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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore. Richard Ford

It seems to me a painting [she is working on] like the one I gave Manet ['The Harbour at Lorient'] could perhaps sell, and that is all I care about. Berthe Morisot

There's many a ship lost within sight of harbour. Irish Proverb

A little body doth often harbour a great soul. Arabic Proverb

He who waits gets a tailwind, and he who rows, a harbour. Faroese Proverb

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