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Definition of Oft

Oft

Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.

Frequent; often; repeated.

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Frequent, Frequently, Many, Not, Often, Rarely, Repeated, Times

Oft Quotations

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
John Milton

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius

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

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile

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

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster

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

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
Barry Cornwall

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

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh Latimer

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Oft Translations

oft in Hungarian is gyakorta, gyakran

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