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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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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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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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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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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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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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