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Letter "T" » The Flood
«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.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affairs,
afloat,
bound,
clouds,
current,
flood,
flood tide,
folded,
folding,
fold up,
man of affairs,
miseries,
omit,
omits,
omitted,
omitting,
shallows,
The Clouds,
The Current,
The Flood,
tide,
voyage
«These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: / And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.»
«They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.»
«Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.»
«Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.»
«Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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About:
Honesty
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Keywords:
flood,
recede,
recedes,
receding,
rock,
slander,
slandered,
slandering,
Slanders,
The Flood,
The Rock
«Theirs was the giant race, before the flood.»
«There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where»
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affairs,
current,
flood,
flooded,
flooding,
flood in,
flood tide,
fortune,
leads,
man of affairs,
serves,
The Current,
The Flood,
tide,
ventures
«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.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
|
Keywords:
affairs,
bound,
flood,
flood tide,
miseries,
omit,
omits,
omitted,
omitting,
shallows,
The Flood,
tide,
voyage