Sir William Osler

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    On my face extended flat
    I was walloped with a cat
    For listening at the key-hole of the door.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp.
    Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup.
    Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests,
    I produced the orchards, gardens and groves.
    It is I who made the glass out of stone,
    And it is I who turn a poison into an antidote.
    Muhammad, Sir Iqbal (1873–1938)

    What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
    —Sir William Osler (1849–1919)

    The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
    —Sir William Osler (1849–1919)