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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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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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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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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.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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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.
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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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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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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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.
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