<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Resolution</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Favours of Fortune I once hop'd to gain,<br>And often invok'd her, but ever in vain.<br>She despis'd my Addresses, which gave me such Grief,<br>I flew to the Muses, in Hopes of Relief.<br>Ah Wretch that I was! I might very well know,<br>'Twas the Method to make her for ever my Foe.<br>They laugh'd at the Goddess, and bid me despise her;<br>But Time and Experience have made me grow wiser.<br>This unhappy Mistake I resolve to repair.<br>O Fortune! thy Votaries must persevere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Barber">Mary Barber</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455510" data-title="The Resolution de Mary Barber" data-description="The Favours of Fortune I once hop'd to gain, And often invok'd her, but ever in vain. She despis'd my Addresses, which gave me such Grief, I flew to the Muses, in Hopes of Relief. Ah Wretch that I was! I might very well know, 'Twas the Method to m..."></div> </div> </div>

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