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William Osler Inspirational Quotes (126)

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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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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.
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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.
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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 and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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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.
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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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