Fragments Quote by William Osler

“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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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…

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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

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

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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless…

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

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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new…

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Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists…

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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other…

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...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,…

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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

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Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each…

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He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

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All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull…

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the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas,…

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