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8 Quotes for 'William Osler' in the Database.
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William Osler Quotes
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It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
Topic: Books
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Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Look heavenward, if you wish, but never to the horizon; that way danger lies. Truth is not there, happiness is not there, certainty is not there, but the falsehoods, the frauds, the quackeries, the ignes fatui (false beacons) which have deceived each generation all beckon from the horizon and lure the men not content to look for the truth and happiness that tumble out at their feet.
Topic: Christianity
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The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.
Topic: Humanity
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Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Topic: Language
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Topic: Life
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.
Topic: Perspective
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
Topic: Teachers
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the
incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and
in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work
at this age.
Topic: Work
Source: in an address at John Hopkins University
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