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• 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 as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

  William Osler

  Work, Men, Years

  Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 22 Feb. 1905

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• 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 her balances.

  William Osler

  Science, Destiny, Crucible

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.254, ACP Press

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• The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

  William Osler

  Knowledge, Giving, Way

  Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

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• The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

  William Osler

  Health, Exercise, Animal

  In H. Cushing Life of Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 14

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• 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 - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

  William Osler

  Life, Uplifting, Laughter

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• To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

  William Osler

  Motivational, Spiritual, Work

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.117, Ravenio Books

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• 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 very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.

  William Osler

  Mistake, Men, Evil

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.233, ACP Press

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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 life.

  William Osler

  Men, Omission, New Life

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• Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

  William Osler

  Jaundice, Disease

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 5

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• Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

  William Osler

  Physicians, Records, Half

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

  William Osler

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  The Principles and Practice of Medicine p. 130. Appleton, New York (1892)

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• Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

  William Osler

  Humanity, Gold, World

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.32, ACP Press

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• 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.

  William Osler

  Life, Humility, Men

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.18, ACP Press

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• Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

  William Osler

  Hands, Giving, Physicians

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.47, ACP Press

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

  William Osler

  Laughter, Feelings, Egotism

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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 too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

  William Osler

  Men, Doctors, Tragedy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.49, ACP Press

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

  William Osler

  Humility, Disease, Clinicals

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.120, ACP Press

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• Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

  William Osler

  Sad, Comfort, Helping

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

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• Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

  William Osler

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.133, Duke University Press

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• What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

  William Osler

  Life, Trials, Equanimity

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.16, ACP Press

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• 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 to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

  William Osler

  Teaching, School, Character

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.121, Ravenio Books

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• 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, their sorrows and their griefs.

  William Osler

  Grief, Men, Joy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.31, ACP Press

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

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

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