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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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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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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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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 natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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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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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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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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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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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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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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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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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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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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