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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
William Osler
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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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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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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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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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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He who knows syphilis knows medicine
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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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.
William Osler
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
William Osler
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
William Osler
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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