The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. [ Tate and Brady ]
Nations and empires flourish and decay,
By turns command, and in their turn obey. [ Dryden, after Ovid ]
The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]
Arts, commerce, and good government flourish together. [ T. G. Bergen ]
Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. [ Thomas Paine ]
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, and delves the parallels in beauty's brow. [ William Shakespeare ]
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. [ Heine ]
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. [ George Henry Lewes ]
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou are dieted for health. [ Fuller ]
Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity. Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. [ Mallet and Thomson ]
In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pinetrees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. [ J. F. Boyes ]