"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."

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"Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on death   

"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on death
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"The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to ones self: The work is done. But just as one says that, the answer comes: The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains. The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living. "

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"Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sumbut you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly. "

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"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."

Holmes, Sherlock on idleness
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"The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession."

Holmes, Sherlock on theory
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on libraries   

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on mistakes   

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on speculation
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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. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on bores and boredom
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on talent   

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on things and little things   

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on truth
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on violence   

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"Example is leadership."

Schweitzer, Albert on example   

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

Schweitzer, Albert on example
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"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

Schweitzer, Albert on happiness   

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious."

Schweitzer, Albert on learning
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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

Schweitzer, Albert on life   

"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."

Schweitzer, Albert on animals
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility."

Schweitzer, Albert on responsibility   

"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."

Schweitzer, Albert on sacrifice   

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Schweitzer, Albert on service
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"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Schweitzer, Albert on success
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"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

Schweitzer, Albert on success   

"Physical misery is great everywhere out here [Africa]. Are we justified in shutting our eyes and ignoring it because our European newspapers tell us nothing about it? We civilised people have been spoilt. If any one of us is ill the doctor comes at once. Is an operation necessary, the door of some hospital or other opens to us immediately. But let every one reflect on the meaning of the fact that out here millions and millions live without help or hope of it. Every day thousands and thousands endure the most terrible sufferings, though medical science could avert them. Every day there prevails in many and many a far-off hut a despair which we could banish. Will each of my readers think what the last ten years of his family history would have been if they had been passed without medical or surgical help of any sort? It is time that we should wake from slumber and face our responsibilities!"

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"The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. "

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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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