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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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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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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.
William Osler
The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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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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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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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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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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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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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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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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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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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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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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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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