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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.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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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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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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