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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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Sir William Osler
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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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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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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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 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.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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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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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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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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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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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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