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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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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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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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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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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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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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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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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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