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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
William Osler
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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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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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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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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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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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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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 hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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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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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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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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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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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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