“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain”
George Crabbe
“Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.”
William Arthur Ward
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief”
William Shakespeare
“Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.”
William Orville Douglas
“When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence”
Camille Paglia
