Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Wise Quotes, Ocean Quotes

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!

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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

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Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

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'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

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"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

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It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

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We have much to hope from the flowers.

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How sweet the morning air is! ...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 is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

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