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Quotations by author » William Osler
Canadian Physician, 1849-1919
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, "hearts are broken, heads are turned".
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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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Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible
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Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith.
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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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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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One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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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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Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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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 treasurers, 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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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The future is today.
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