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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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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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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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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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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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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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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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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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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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