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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Port

Any port in a storm.

It is not every man’s lot to gain the port of Corinth. (A port difficult to enter.)Horace.

Many have come to a port after a storm.

No wind can do him good who steers for no port.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.