Oftenest Quotes

18 quotes by 14 authors

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. — Horace
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. — Austin O'Malley
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. — Julius Charles Hare
He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest. — Frederick Douglass
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory. — Nicolas Chamfort
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. — Frederick Douglass
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs… — Thomas Carlyle
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes… — William Cowper
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. — Hosea Ballou
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and… — George Edward Woodberry
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to… — Helene Hanff
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who Wrote These Oftenest Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 18 Oftenest Quotes as follows: