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  • Oft stumbles at a straw. -- Edmund Spenser
  • Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. -- Walter Scott
  • And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw. -- Edmund Spenser
  • And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw. -- Edmund Spenser
  • Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. -- James Merrick
  • Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. -- Alexander Pope
  • Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. -- Michael Bruce
  • Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate. -- William Shakespeare
  • Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. -- William Shenstone
  • Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. -- William Browne
  • Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need. -- Walter Scott
  • Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. -- Samuel Rogers
  • Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. -- John Donne
  • And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. -- William Wordsworth
  • Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. -- William Wordsworth
  • Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. -- Charles Dickens
  • Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. -- John Milton
  • Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. -- William Shakespeare
  • Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart. -- Edwin Markham
  • Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by. -- George Linley
  • Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again. -- John Gay
  • But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
  • Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn. -- Alan Seeger
  • Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine. -- Robert Herrick
  • Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers. -- Samuel Rogers
  • Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. -- Alexander Pope
  • Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost. -- Johann Ludwig Tieck
  • Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued. -- R. Scott Bakker
  • Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill cry, In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight, Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a spirit all in white. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. -- Charles Lamb
  • There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. -- John Milton
  • Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. -- Christoph Martin Wieland
  • A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. -- Francis Bacon
  • He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. -- Edmund Spenser
  • The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! -- William Shakespeare
  • The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. -- George Savile
  • The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. -- William Shakespeare
  • Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. -- William Shakespeare
  • The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. -- Lucretius
  • Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. -- John Webster
  • So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! -- Bryan Procter
  • Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. -- William Shakespeare
  • Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. -- Robert Greene
  • Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn. -- Thomas Hood
  • Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake. -- John Bunyan
  • Jesters do oft prove prophets. -- William Shakespeare
  • A bitter drug oft brings relief. -- Ovid
  • The apparel oft proclaims the man. -- William Shakespeare
  • A troubled countenance oft discloses much. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Despair and Genius are too oft connected -- George Gordon Byron
  • Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims. -- Philip Sidney
  • Despair and Genius are too oft connected -- George Gordon Byron
  • Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
  • Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. -- William Shakespeare
  • Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. -- Edmund Spenser
  • Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • A show of daring oft conceals great fear. -- Lucan
  • To fear the worst oft cures the worst. -- William Shakespeare
  • Steel itself oft lures a man to fight. -- Homer
  • Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes. -- George R. R. Martin
  • A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. -- Seneca the Younger
  • That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. -- George Herbert
  • The few that pray at all pray oft amiss. -- William Cowper
  • Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are. -- William Shakespeare
  • Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go. -- Henry Kirke White
  • Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes -- Christoph Martin Wieland
  • God oft hath a great share in a little house. -- George Herbert
  • Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent. -- Christopher Marlowe
  • Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. -- William Shakespeare
  • Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. -- John Dryden
  • It exposed a universally relatable, oft-times unspoken truth we all suppress. -- Ken Poirot
  • Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. -- John Keats
  • The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. -- George Herbert
  • By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. -- John Milton
  • Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail. -- Robert Lloyd
  • Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. -- Edmund Waller
  • Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven. -- William Shakespeare
  • And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all. -- William Wordsworth
  • The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. -- Homer
  • A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated. -- James Rozoff
  • But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows. -- Joanna Baillie
  • Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. -- Louis de Bernieres
  • We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there? -- John McLeod
  • He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market. -- Ben Jonson
  • A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. -- Walter Scott
  • As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. -- Joseph Addison
  • Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps. -- Arthur Symons
  • Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. -- William Shakespeare
  • How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend. -- George Eliot
  • I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound. -- Philip Sidney
  • Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them. -- Patrick Dempsey
  • The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes. -- William D. Burt
  • True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. -- Alexander Pope
  • True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. -- Alexander Pope
  • Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. -- John Dryden
  • Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! -- Alfred Austin
  • How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree -- John Clare
  • The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. -- William Shakespeare
  • The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. -- George Savile
  • Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake. -- William Blake
  • And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. -- John Milton
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