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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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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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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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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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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 greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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 hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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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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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 higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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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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