It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement;. . . The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals,. . . are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later.
Acquaintance lessens fame.
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
