"Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of……" — William Osler

"Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility."

— William Osler

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118 Quotes by William Osler

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Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both…
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged…
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them…
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free…
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in…
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one…
Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste…
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — Smedley Butler
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. — Taylor Caldwell
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to… — Alexander Hamilton
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and… — George Fordyce

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