I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHow small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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One must wait till it comes.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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