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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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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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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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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.
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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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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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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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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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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 great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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