Synonyms for flourishes
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1. List of paraphrases for "flourishes":

   thrives, blossoms, prospers

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1. Jim Smith:

   When humans are removed, nature flourishes - even in the wake of the world's worst nuclear accident, it's very likely that wildlife numbers at Chernobyl are now much higher than they were before the accident.

2. Homer, The Odyssey:

   Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

3. Havelock Ellis:

   The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

4. Steve Maraboli:

   Your seed is your initial intent and it flourishes when your actions reflect that intent."

5. Josephine Hart, "Sin":

   We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.