#prosper

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ↗

— Sophocles

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I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. ↗

— Herodotus

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A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks. ↗

— Scott McClellan

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