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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

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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's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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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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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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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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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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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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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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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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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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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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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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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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