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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.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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