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Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

  • Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}
  • Then must you strive to be worthy of her love. Be brave and pure, fearless to the strong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosper or no, you will have fitted yourself to be honored by a maiden's love, which is, in sooth, the highest guerdon which a true knight can hope for.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}
  • But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}
  • Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}
  • Still, I have no love for the cloth. Just as cotton, which is in itself the most harmless substance in the world, becomes dangerous on being dipped into nitric acid, so the mildest of mortals is to be feared if he is once soaked in sectarian religion.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}
  • Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}
  • A wave of panic passed over the vessel, and these rough and hardy men, who feared no mortal foe, shook with terror at the shadows of their own minds.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}
  • Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.... Arthur Conan Doyle Sr. {view}