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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.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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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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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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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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