The great ones have insights for us all The following quote has been on my mind of late Selling our home here and moving to Ontario - causes lots of reflection.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;"
Since the object in investing is to buy low and sell high - What is said in the first line below in the more complete quote has some message for us in either direction. The tide is changing - the direction is not yet known.
There are three possible results
1. stay in and ride the
possible tide to greatness.
2. Get out now and play in lifes shallows and miseries(you may find another investment to do the greatness for you)
3. you
might be cast into the shallows and miseries of life. if you ride this tide.
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."Mark Twain
Explanation by Johnslat
From Shakespears
We at the height are ready to decline.
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. (IV.ii.269–276)
Brutus speaks these words in Act IV, scene ii in order to convince Cassius that it is time to begin the battle against Octavius and Antony. He speaks figuratively of a “tide” in the lives of human beings: if one takes advantage of the high tide, one may float out to sea and travel far; if one misses this chance, the “voyage” that one’s life comprises will remain forever confined to the shallows, and one will never experience anything more glorious than the mundane events in this narrow little bay. Brutus reproaches Cassius that if they do not “take the current” now, when the time is right, they will lose their “ventures,” or opportunities.
A lot of BS???? My high school English teacher said I was one of the best.
The struggle is being waged for us by JR
There are others in oposition who would want to pick up the pieces of a DOR failure.
It IS a clasic struggle - The diamond industry will NOT be the same after a bulk test of this deposit.
I am in till Fortune or Misery - However I will be content with the misery because I will have lived. What stories I can tell the grand kids - Isnt that all this is about - The stories we can tell?? None of which are false
Kasm