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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.»
«Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.»
«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.»
«Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.»
«The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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high pressure, passive, pumping, receptacle, receptacles
«To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
beat about, diagnoses, diagnosis, hypothetical, The Bush
«Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
«The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts -- head, heart and haggis.»
«Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
«Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.»
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