#flourish

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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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

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There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. ↗

— Katherine Graham

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The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper. ↗

— Hesiod

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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. ↗

— James Buchan

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It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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