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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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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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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things the motto of one is Prove all things and hold fast that which is good and of the other Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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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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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
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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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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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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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