How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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One must wait till it comes.
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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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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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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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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 have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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