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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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.
William Osler
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
William Osler
Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
William Osler
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
William Osler
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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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.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
He who knows syphilis knows medicine
William Osler
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
William Osler
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
William Osler
The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
William Osler
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler
