#oftener

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

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Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one. ↗

— William Gurnall

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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. ↗

— William Cobbett

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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