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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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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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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
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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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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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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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Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
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