 | 1891 - 874 էջ
...profession is free from its parasite ? Nash was an instance of the oft-quoted lines : — " There is a tide in the affairs of men That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." The opportunity offered, and all his previous training enabled him to turn it to account.... | |
 | James Ernest Nesmith - 1897 - 548 էջ
...one to the office of governor by the Republicans would have been doubtful in the extreme. " There is a tide in the affairs of men that taken at the flood leads on to fortune." Two years later Greenhalge found his great opportunity. At this time, however, he was not... | |
 | Leopold Wagner - 1899 - 234 էջ
...accepted. She acquitted herself admirably, and offers of engagements poured in upon her. Truly, ' there is a tide in the affairs of men that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' In the theatrical profession such opportunities come to everyone sooner or later. It only... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Meigs - 1901 - 420 էջ
...the town, and which he freely loaned, but greatly to his loss and that of his family. JLM There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — Shakspeare. No. 427. LORINQ MEIQS. He did not take kindly to educational pursuits, but... | |
 | Charles Waller Tyler - 1902 - 378 էջ
...much-esteemed friend," began the young gentleman in his polished debating-society manner, " there is a tide in the affairs of men that taken at the flood leads on to fortune. A few minutes since I would have been satisfied with the possession of this little insignificant... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1906 - 314 էջ
...opportunities. " Jump while the wave is on the swell." " Now or never." " No sooner said than done." " There is a tide in the affairs of men that taken at the flood leads on to fortune." " Strike while the iron's hot." " He that would not when he may, When he would he shall have... | |
 | George Alexander Gibson - 1912 - 842 էջ
...get them." " How do you reconcile that proverb," said the ethnologist to me, " with Shakespeare's ' tide in the affairs of men that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ' ? " " Oh," I replied, " I do not see any difficulty there ; but our friend has quoted the... | |
 | Samuel Finley Breese Morse - 1914 - 610 էջ
...your Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. I congratulate you with all my heart. Shakespeare says: 'There is a tide in the affairs of men that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' You are now fairly launched on what I hope will prove to you another Pactolus. I pedefausto!... | |
 | Mary Katharine Reely - 1921 - 352 էջ
...Great Britain and Japan are showing. Is the United States going to weaken at this crisis? "There is a tide in the affairs of men that taken at the flood leads on to fortune," and that tide is at the flood right here and right now. Will the United States take it or... | |
 | Arthur Shearly Cripps - 1927 - 228 էջ
...both Races, Europe's and Africa's. To quote well-known words with but little adaptation : " There is a tide in the affairs of men That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their Race Is bound in shallows and in miseries." AFTER-WORD THIS... | |
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 
