The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI’ve had my share of angels.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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