“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”
“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”
“Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.”
“Jesters do oft prove prophets”
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”