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Men Quotes by William Osler
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to…
- The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
- There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter…
- But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too…
- 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…
- It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its…
- Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
- 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…
- It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious…
- No man is really happy or safe without a hobby ...
- As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a…
- Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done…
- 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…
- The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if…
- The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,…
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an…
- There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their…
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