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Letter "A" » Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Quotes
«So they lived, these men, in their own lusty, cheery fashion--rude and rough, but honest, kindly and true. Let us thank God if we have outgrown their vices. Let us pray to God that we may ever hold their virtues.»
«To his right walked a huge red-headed man, with broad smile and merry twinkle, whose clothes seemed to be bursting and splitting at every seam, as though he were some lusty chick who was breaking bravely from his shell.»
«When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs -- by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«The future was with Fate. The present was our own.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«The true scientific mind is not to be tied down by its own conditions of time and space. It builds itself an observatory erected upon the border line of present, which separates the infinite past from the infinite future. From this sure post it makes its sallies even to the beginning and to the end of all things.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
«How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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