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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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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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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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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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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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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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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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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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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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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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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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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 higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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