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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from 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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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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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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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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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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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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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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