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Physician

William Osler was a renowned Canadian physician, considered one of the founders of modern medical education. Born on July 12, 1849, he passed away on December 29, 1919. Osler made significant contributions to the fields of pathology, clinical medicine, and medical education.

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“Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.”

Way May Hard Silence Accepting Hard Work Complaining Dust Smoke Extras Minors Complaints Annoyed Aggravation Draught Always Complaining

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.”

Men World May Shows Evil Mistake Novel Worst Speech Majority Proportion Forty Sermons World History Great Mistakes

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable 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.”

Men May Memories Strange Floats Posterity Trifling

Book:Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal

Source: Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal

“Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.”

May Routine Humdrum

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“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.”

May Has Beens Important Desire Education Students Taught Regard Medical Statements Epitaph Important Work

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“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.”

Way May Science Loses Modern Development Accounts Extraordinary Workers Proportion Outlook Modern Science Mazes Fragmented Undoing Minutiae

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“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.”

Life Heart May Soul Care Given Influence Habit Waste Late Lays Spending Live Life Too Late Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.”

Men Way May Practice Wind Mountain Lonely Medicine Guides Hills Sincere Physicians Shepherds Practice Of Medicine Delectable Knowledge Experience Lonely Roads

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

About the Author

Born: July 12, 1849
Died: December 29, 1919
Known for: Physician
Quotes: 135

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Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and ScienceRelated source material

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