The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its … - Arthur Conan Doyle

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No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Events, Fact, Facts, Literature, Reasoner, Remarked

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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

Art, Free Education, Accomplishment, Problems, Highest, Solution

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

Love, Heart, Wedding Anniversary, Life, Thought

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!

Sweet, Morning, Ambition, Ambitions, Petty

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

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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.

Flower, Smell, Rose, Against, Life, Condition

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