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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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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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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
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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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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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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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