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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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