the quality of being able to perform a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
"danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities. [ Cicero ]
It is the abilities of a horse that occasions his slavery. [ Proverb ]
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. [ Froude ]
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [ Juvenal ]
There are many rare abilities in the world, which fortune never brings to light. [ Proverb ]
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? [ Chapin ]
Disasters are wont to reveal the abilities of a general, good fortune to conceal them. [ Horace ]
Not easily do those attain to distinction whose abilities are cramped by domestic poverty. [ Juv ]
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more. [ Gail Hamilton ]
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. [ Seneca ]
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. [ Addison ]
The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit. [ La Bruyere ]
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. [ Hare ]
Natural abilities can almost make up for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation for want of natural abilities. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. [ Swift ]
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder what your powers are equal to, and what they are unable to perform. [ Horace ]
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. [ Colton ]
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. [ Bacon ]
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that in this prudent country most people are so shy of praising anything. [ Hare ]
abilitiesin Scrabble®
The word abilities is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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albites, alibies, astilbe, ileitis, libates
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The word abilities is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
abilities:
albites, alibies, astilbe, ileitis, libates
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