Ability Quote by Matthew Simpson Download Open image “If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.” — Matthew Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Enjoy Grows May Passing away Pleasure Senses
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share
The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and muscle, the… — Lorraine Anderson Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven. — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image