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Quotes by Sir William Osler - (7 quotes)

Sir William Osler - From the Books category:

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. (Sir William Osler)

Sir William Osler - From the Complaining category:

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. (Sir William Osler)

Sir William Osler - From the Interest category:

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. (Sir William Osler)

Sir William Osler - From the Life category:

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. (Sir William Osler)

Sir William Osler - From the Observation category:

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. (Sir William Osler)

Sir William Osler - From the Repetition category:

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work. (Sir William Osler)

Sir William Osler - From the Routine category:

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. (Sir William Osler)