(36 quotes found)
“Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.”
William Shakespeare
“To fear the worst oft cures the worse.”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits”
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake”
William Blake
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!”
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”
“Jesters do oft prove prophets”
“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
