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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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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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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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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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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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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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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 higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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