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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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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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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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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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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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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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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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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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