#acquainted

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#deny #his #home #indian #people

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#acquainted #becoming #been #began #bible

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ↗

— Virgil

#help #i #learn #misfortune #myself

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ↗

— John Wooden

#admirers #adversity #becomes #being #easily

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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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

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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

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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

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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

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