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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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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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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.
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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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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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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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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
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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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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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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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