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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 most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.
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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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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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He who knows syphilis knows medicine
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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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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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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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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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
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