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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them. — Patrick Dempsey

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. — John Milton

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree — John Clare

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell

The art of medicine in the season lies:
Wine given in season oft will benefit,
Which out of season injures. — Ovid

A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it — Francis Bacon

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about. — John Milton

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. — Benjamin Disraeli

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. — George Herbert

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year. — Walter Scott

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft. — Thomas Watson

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. — Homer

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. — William Browne

God, who oft descends to visit men
Unseen, and through their habitations walks
To mark their doings. — John Milton

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. — Ovid

If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far. — Robert Browning

We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself. — William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets. — William Shakespeare

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. — Christoph Martin Wieland

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The same that oft-times hath
charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats

A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart. — George R R Martin

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? — William Shakespeare

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes. — George R R Martin

Sharing oft leaves less.
But with love the more we share,
the fuller our hearts. — J. Benson

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. — John Keats

Despair and Genius are too oft connected — George Gordon Byron

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse. — William Shakespeare

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world. — Benjamin Franklin

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ... — Erica Jong

It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I — Jeff VanderMeer

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. — Benjamin Franklin

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! — Alfred Austin

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

Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again. — John Gay

To fear the worst oft cures the worst. — William Shakespeare

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar. — William Wordsworth

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. — Michael Bruce

Thy best of rest is sleep,
And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st
Thy death, which is no more. — William Shakespeare

For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed. — William Shakespeare

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. — John Milton

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. — William Shakespeare

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss. — Thomas Tusser

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent. — Christopher Marlowe

For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess. — Jacqueline Carey

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton

How oft," he murmured, "when men are at the point of death have they been merry! — Rachel Joyce

Oft times, we must fight a battle, if only to learn to lay down our arms. — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. — John Milton

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. — Edmund Waller

oft evil will shall evil mar. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. — Edmund Spenser

Much too oft we make life gloomy
When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry. — George R R Martin

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market. — Ben Jonson

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. — Robert Greene

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful. — Gary Hamel

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake. — William Blake

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. — William Shakespeare

That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. — George Herbert

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Auguries are oft subtle ... and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether. — Dennis L. McKiernan

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. — William Blake

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

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude — William Wordsworth

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. — Sophocles

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

Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service. — M T Anderson

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by. — George Linley

We oft question and compare ... Is the journey so important or the getting there? — John McLeod

Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said. — Eddie Lenihan

Best men oft are moulded out of faults. — William Shakespeare

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. — Charles Dickens

The apparel oft proclaims the man — William Shakespeare

And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser

Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues
- 1654 — Esmerelda Jane Forstine

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. — John Dryden

Lovers may never meet again, but the ways of enemies oft do intersect: This proves some corollary about gravity. — William T. Vollmann

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. — Samuel Rogers

People are who they are, because oft the world they are living in.
The world is as it is, because of the people living in it. — Ann Leckie

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. — William Wordsworth

A show of daring oft conceals great fear. — Lucan

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound. — Philip Sidney

How oft the warmth of the sun above
Makes a pretty young girl dream of love. — Gustave Flaubert

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. — John Dryden

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. — William Shakespeare

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light. — George R R Martin