William Osler Short Quotes

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In war the microbe kills more than the bullet.

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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Our bowels are outside of us—just a tucked-in portion.

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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

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Civilization is but a filmy fringe on the history of man.

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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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Medicine, unlike law and theology, is a progressive science...

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

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We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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The [medical] student often resembles the poet — he is born, not made.

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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

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One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

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To prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick — this is our work.

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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

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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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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

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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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