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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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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 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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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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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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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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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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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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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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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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