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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.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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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 trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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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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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things the motto of one is Prove all things and hold fast that which is good and of the other Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil a relish of knowledge and you put life into his work.
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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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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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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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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