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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

William Osler

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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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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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Laughter is the music of life.
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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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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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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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as 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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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
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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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