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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
Thomas Sowell
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We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible
Indira Gandhi
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The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and
the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Isaiah (ch. XXXV, v. 1)
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But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig
tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord
of hosts hath spoken it.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Micah (ch. IV, v. 4)
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Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches
and honour.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. III, v. 16)
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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque
magno opere fugiamus.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Officiis (I, 26)
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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
[Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis
est.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Officiis (I, 26)
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession
of prosperous days.
[Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,
Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Spruche in Reimen (III)
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Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
George Herbert
Quotes , Source: Jacula Prudentum
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I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.
Alain Rene Le Sage
Quotes , Source: Gil Blas (bk. VII, ch. IV), (Henri Van Laun's translation)
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Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paraise Lost (bk. II, l. 39)
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Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one
cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam
erga bona sua satis cautus est.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Quotes , Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (X, 1, 40)
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
[Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna
felicitas!]
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Quotes , Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (XIII)
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He
overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
[Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus
Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Quotes , Source: Hercules Oetoeus (713)
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