Quotes with flourish

  • Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

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  • William Blake Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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  • Bill Owens Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Camille Paglia Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • George Crabbe Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
    George Crabbe
    English poet, surgeon and clergyman (1745 - 1832)
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  • Carl Sagan Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 54 min 25 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Levitt Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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  • Barbara Smith Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Bill Richardson We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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