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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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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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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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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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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.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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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.
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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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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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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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.
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It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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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.
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