William Osler Quotes

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• Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease…
• Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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.
• Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
• Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
• The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the…
• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the…
• Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
• We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
• To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
• What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
• Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with…
• The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
• 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…
• 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…
• Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise...
• Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
• In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to…

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