"The young doctor should look about early for……" — William Osler
"The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions…"
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118 Quotes by William Osler
William Osler has 118 quotes on this site.
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Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both…
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged…
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them…
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free…
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in…
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At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one…
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Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste…
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
— Phyllis McGinley
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There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.
— Arnold Haultain
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What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works.…
— Aldo Leopold
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If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a…
— Milton Friedman
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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it…
— Nelson Algren
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There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a…
— Unknown Author
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For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
— Wynn Bullock
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
— Elsa Maxwell
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My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
— Robert Frost
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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be…
— Eugene Field
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