Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

We must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk,

And nature must obey necessity.

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.