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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
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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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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
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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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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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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 Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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