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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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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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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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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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