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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 successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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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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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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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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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
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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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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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