Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Seems Quotes

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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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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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

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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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