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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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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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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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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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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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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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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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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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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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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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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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