Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

• From A Study in Scarlet, in Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection (Enhanced Media, 2016).

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Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645 CE)

"Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased."

• From Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings, (Lord Majesty Productions, 2005 edition).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849 CE)

"No man has recorded, no man has dared to record, the wonders of his inner life."

• From Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Bede

Bede (673-735 CE)

“If history records good things of good men,

the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate

what is good: or if it records evil of wicked men,

the devout, religious listener or reader is encouraged

to avoid all that is sinful and perverse and to follow

what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.”

• From Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).  

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Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes (Greek/Egyptian Scholar and Poet, 3rd Century BCE)

"Mortals can never sidestep fate; the cosmic
net is extended round us everywhere."

• From Apollonius of Rhodes' epic poem, Argonautica (Book I), based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. The translation is by Aaron Poochigian (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-1960 CE)

"What I know, what is certain, what I cannot deny, what I cannot reject--this is what counts."

• From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, translated by Justin O'Brien (Random House, 1983).

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Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (10th and 11th century Japanese novelist)

"To the noble heart that aspires to soar aloft, high above the clouds,
depths of a thousand fathoms appear very far below."

• From Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji (Chapter 17), translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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