The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good an ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken to the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. In such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves , Or lose our ventures. Julius Caesar, act 4, sc, 3.