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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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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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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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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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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Laughter is the music of life.
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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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 practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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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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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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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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