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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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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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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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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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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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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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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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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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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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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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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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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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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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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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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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