He that labours and thrives spins gold. [ Proverb ]
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. [ Auerbach ]
Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court. [ Mme. Necker ]
Who spends before he thrives, will beg before he thinks. [ Proverb ]
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. [ J. G. Holland ]
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Cheerfulness is the heaven under which everything but poison thrives. [ Jean Paul ]
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. [ Whately ]
Real friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. [ Chesterfield ]
Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. [ Montaigne ]
The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks. [ South ]
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]