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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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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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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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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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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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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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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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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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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things the motto of one is Prove all things and hold fast that which is good and of the other Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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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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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
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