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Oft expectations fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.


William Shakespeare

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN That day I oft remember, when from sleep
I first awaked, and found myself reposed,
Under a...
JOHN MILTON Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Genius, that power that dazzles mortal eyes,
Is oft but perseverance in disguise.
HENRY WILLARD AUSTIN Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attem...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmer...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry...
JOHN WEBSTER Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When by the Ruins oft I past
My sorrowing eyes aside did cast
And here and there the places s...
ANNE DUDLEY BRADSTREET Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where ther...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI How oft the warmth of the sun above
Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Speech is oft repented, silence never
DANISH PROVERB Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Tou...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to f...
ALEX PAREENE The question must be asked as to what psychological impact there may be from this oft-cited [number]...
DAVID ROSENBERG Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
WILLIAM LLOYD Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The apparel oft proclaims the man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A bitter drug oft brings relief.
OLD SONG A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
FRANCIS BACON I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
JOHN MILTON Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
CAECILIUS STATIUS Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
THOMAS MIDDLETON A short saying oft contains much wisdom
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JOHN DAVIES Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where the...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and ga...
WILLIAM COLLINS And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
CHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELAND Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
JAMES MERRICK Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
LUCAN The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now br...
THOMAS HOOD And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident
SAMUEL BUTLER And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw
EDMUND SPENSER Most surely Ibrahim was forbearing, tender-hearted, oft-returning (to Allah): / O Ibrahim! leave off...
QURAN Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.
JOHN KEATS We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
GEORGE HERBERT Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And oft the pangs of absence to remove By letters, soft interpreters of love.
MATTHEW PRIOR The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' p...
ROBERT BURNS Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have p...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
HERBERT HOOVER God oft hath a great share in a little house.
GEORGE HERBERT And we whom custom bars this active Valour, Branding it with Reproach, shrink at th' Alarm Of War, b...
CATHERINE COCKBURN Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE A child's version of the truth is oft monitored by his parents' stares.
CHRISTOPHER PEAL If two lives join, there is oft a scar, / They are one and one, with a shadowy third; / One near one...
ROBERT BROWNING The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Whe...
RICHARD BACH A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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