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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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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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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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He who knows syphilis knows medicine
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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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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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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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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.
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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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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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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