William Osler Quotes
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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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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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
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A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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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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Laughter is the music of life.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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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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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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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 desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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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 great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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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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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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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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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.