And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He could walk, or rather turn about in his little garden, and feel more solid happiness from the flourishing of a cabbage or the g...rowing of a turnip than was ever received from the most ostentatious show the vanity of man could possibly invent. He could delight himself with thinking, "Here will I set such a root, because my Camilla likes it; here, such another, because it is my little David's favorite."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Side by side with the Marxists of the northern cities, flourishing in the same situation and starting from the same premise, there... appeared at the beginning of the thirties the second of the anti-capitalist movements of the decade, the movement called Southern Agrarianism. If the Marxists wished to give power to the masses, the Agrarians meant to give it to an educated aristocracy ruling over an eighteenth-century economy. Where the Marxists foresaw an ever-growing concentration of industrial activity in units that were to increase in size, the Agrarians strove to break up the large productive units into groups of small ones, and, through decentralization, return to the society of Jefferson's time, when the great bulk of the people owned their own land. The Agrarians, consequently, looked as strenuously at the past as the Marxists did to the future. Where the Marxists drew their inspiration from the socialist thinkers of the nineteenth century, the Agrarians went back to Plato and his philosopher-kings vigorously trained to rule the state, to Carlyle and superman formulators of modern times, to Chesterton and Belloc and their strong religious orthodoxy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... city areas with flourishing diversity sprout strange and unpredictable uses and peculiar scenes. But this is not a drawback of... diversity. This is the point ... of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [the territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widel...y are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts an...d the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by a...ll the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism ...at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the great privileges of being a parent is witnessing, close up, the flourishing of a young mind. But that's not the only be...nefit. In trying to make the world a more interesting and comprehensible place for their child, parents often find their own intellectual interests rekindled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »