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.
... William Osler (1849-1919), A Way of Life [1937]
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