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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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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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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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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.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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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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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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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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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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