Daniel Drake Quotes

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Those who hold that it is no matter what happens after them, hold a wicked and inhuman doctrine... When we feel in our hearts this indifference to the fleeting, and this warm regard for the permanent, let us believe that God has implanted the instinct for a wise purpose; and then follow it as a heavenly guide. It is manifestly intended to turn us from the labors of the day — from the things which perish when the hand which formed ceases to uphold them — to tile things and objects which endure through indefinite ages — renewing, I should rather say augmenting their magnitude and their benificent fruits with every successive generation.

Daniel Drake
If observation be the soil, reading is the manure of intellectual culture.

Daniel Drake
[There is no era in the life of a physician] in which his self-complacency is so exalted, as the time which passes between receiving his diploma with its blue ribbon, and receiving crepe and gloves, to wear at the funeral of his first patient.

Daniel Drake
Medicine is not a science of meditations, but of observation.

Daniel Drake
The love of pleasure and the love of science may coexist, but cannot be indulged at the same time; though in fact they are seldom united. A student should draw his pleasures from the discovery of truth, and find his amusements in the beauties and wonders of nature. He should seek for recreation not debauchery

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Professional fame, is the capital of a physician, and he must not suffer it to be purloined, even should its defence involve him in quarrels.

Daniel Drake
The laboratory is not more necessary for the study of chemistry, or a garden of plants for the study of botany, than a hospital for the study of practical medicine and surgery.

Daniel Drake
The young physician is not aware how soon his elementary knowledge — much of which is historical and descriptive, rather than philosophical — will fade from his mind, when he ceases to study. That which he possesses can only be retained by new additions.

Daniel Drake