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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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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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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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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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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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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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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
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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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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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