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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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