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acquaintance
«PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one --the knowledge and the dream.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
acquaintance, visiting
«I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.»
«I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, appointment, beech, beech tree, birch, birches, deepest, eight, frequently, miles, pined, pines, pine tree, pining, snow, tramp, tramped, tramps, yellow, yellow birch
«I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Opportunity,
Relationships,
Truth
| Keywords:
acquaintance, worthiest
«New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive»
«Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.»
«Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Moderation
| Keywords:
acquaintance, foundation, importance, indifference, moderation, proceed, proportioned, prudent, well-proportioned, with moderation, zeal
«If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, contempt, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, familiarity, in the beginning, occasion