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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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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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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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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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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 uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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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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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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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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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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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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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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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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