Taken at the Flood
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First published in Great Britain by
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Source ISBN: 9780008129545
Ebook Edition © September 2015 ISBN: 9780007422838
Version: 2017-04-12
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
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