PARALLEL PASSAGES.
I take the liberty of sending you several parallel passages, which may probably appear to you worthy of insertion in your valuable paper.
1.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
Shakspeare: Julius Cæsar.
"There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it."
Beaumont and Fletcher: The Custom of the Country.
"There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel