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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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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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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.
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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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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil a relish of knowledge and you put life into his work.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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