The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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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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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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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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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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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 we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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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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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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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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