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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Laughter is the music of life.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things the motto of one is Prove all things and hold fast that which is good and of the other Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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