Translations
But, if you wish to have your desires undisappointed, this is in your own control.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
But if you wish not to be disappointed in your desires, that is in your own power.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
But if you wish not to fail in your desires, you are able to do that.George Long (1890)
But if you want not to be disappointed in your will to get, you can attain to that.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)