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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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Things cannot always go your way. 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.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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