A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare
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
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
John Milton
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
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
Barry Cornwall
The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh Latimer
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert Greene
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
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