# Favorite lines from Shakespeare's works

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**Created:** [August 19, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lines-from-shakespeares-works/124549 "2002-08-19T04:13:01Z")\
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From \* Julius Caesar\*, Act IV, scene III :

> [@](#):
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> ```
> 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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> ```

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