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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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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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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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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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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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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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