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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Sir William Osler
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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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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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.
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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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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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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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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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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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