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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
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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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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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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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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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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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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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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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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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