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«And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw»
Author: Edmund Spenser | Keywords: oft, straw, straws, strives, stumbles
«Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, / The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: / How oft hereafter rising shall she look;/ Through this same Garden after me - in vain!»
«A short saying oft contains much wisdom»
Author: Sophocles | About: Wisdom | Keywords: contains, oft
«For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.»
«For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: / But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.»
«Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.»
«How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!»
«And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not»
«Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man.»
«Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.»