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Letter "A" » Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Quotes
«You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.»
«There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.»
«So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.»
«It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.»
«Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side. Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere--the sweet restful silence of nature.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«What did we care, any one of the three of us, where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot in our veins, and our souls were all aflame with the possibilities of life?»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.»
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