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One Quotes by William Osler
- 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…
- The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
- 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…
- For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
- 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…
- We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
- The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has…
- One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
- The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
- Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in…
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