How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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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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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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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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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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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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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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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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The game is afoot.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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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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