Oft Quotes

179 quotes by 101 authors

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
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
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. — Brooks Atkinson
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's… — John Milton
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
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each… — John Milton
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream; — Alexander Pope
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm… — Samuel Johnson
When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love. — Charles Lamb
Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears,… — Charles Lamb
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. — Samuel Rogers
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner… — John Henry Newman
To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop… — Emanuel Lasker
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five… — Jonathan Swift
We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there? — John McLeod
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes — Christoph Martin Wieland
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! — Bryan Procter
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? — William Shakespeare
My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity. — William Shakespeare
And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. — John Milton

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