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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.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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