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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
William Osler
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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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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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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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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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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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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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
William Osler
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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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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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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