Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
From Miscellaneous Thoughts, lines 283-290 ; as contained in The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler: A Revised Edition with Memoir and Notes, Volume 2, Samuel Butler, G. Bell & Sons (1893), pp. 275-276
“They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.”
Canto X, stanza 20 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies." by Torquato Tasso?
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