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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken. (William Osler)
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. View quote
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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. View quote
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice. View quote
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. View quote
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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. View quote
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. View quote
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. View quote
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. View quote
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours. View quote
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician. (William Osler)
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. View quote
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work. View quote
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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life. View quote
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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. View quote
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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. View quote
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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. View quote
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off. View quote
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living. View quote
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A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented. View quote
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. (William Osler)
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. View quote
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore. View quote
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The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy. View quote
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Without faith a man can do nothing, with it all things are possible. View quote
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