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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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Laughter is the music of life.
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