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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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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 desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
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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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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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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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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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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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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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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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