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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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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
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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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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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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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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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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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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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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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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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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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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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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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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