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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Sir William Osler
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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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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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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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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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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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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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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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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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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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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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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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