The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!