open one's eyes
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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"
From Time Magazine Archive
These "certain proofs" have been available for a long time; one has only to open one's eyes to see them.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
It was very wicked to open one's eyes during prayer, he knew.
From The Silver Maple by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
It is not enough to open one's eyes on scenes; one must be able to be en rapport with them.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is no breach of the law of love to open one's eyes to facts, and so to save oneself from taking paper money for gold, except at a heavy discount.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
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