Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Trying Quotes

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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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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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

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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.

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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

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

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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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Violence is sometimes a duty.

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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

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Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

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horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

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It is more than possible; it is probable.

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