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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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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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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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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 greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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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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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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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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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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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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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Laughter is the music of life.
William Osler
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler