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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler
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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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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
William Osler -
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
William Osler -
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
William Osler -
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
William Osler -
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
William Osler
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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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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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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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.
William Osler -
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
William Osler -
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler