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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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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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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil a relish of knowledge and you put life into his work.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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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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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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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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