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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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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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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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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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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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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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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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