“Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.”
William Shakespeare
“And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw”
Edmund Spenser
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits”
“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”
“Jesters do oft prove prophets”
