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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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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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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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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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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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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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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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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things the motto of one is Prove all things and hold fast that which is good and of the other Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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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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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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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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It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
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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 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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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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