Clouds Quote by Thomas Brooks Download Open image “Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.” — Thomas Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clouds Enjoyment Mere Pleasure Pursuit Seems
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of… — Samuel Laman Blanchard 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
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us… — Madame de Lambert 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
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for… — Ben Greenhalgh Copy Share Image
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day. — William Falconer Copy Share Image
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
