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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.


Lord Chesterfield


#acquainted #country #description #ever #knew

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.


Richard Cecil


#acquiesced #all things #bible #characters #god

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.


Maria Monk


#any #awe #believed #dead #great

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.


Leo Ornstein


#aesthetic #begin #enough #estimate #gets

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.


Ovid


#acquainted #affliction #am #better #does

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.


Norman Vincent Peale


#anybody #determines #developing #experience #get

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.


Marcus V. Pollio


#because #corresponding #difficult #greek #harmony

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.


Jackson Pollock


#acquainted #after #aware #been #changes

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.


John Pople


#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.


E. B. White


#club #easier #his #loyal #man






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