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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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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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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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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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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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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
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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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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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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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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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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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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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