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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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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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One must wait till it comes.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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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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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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