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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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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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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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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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