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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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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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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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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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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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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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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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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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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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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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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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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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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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