quote · Legacy record
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- Abraham Cowley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1618–1667)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 94 · printed citation: Cowley · subject: Fortune
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