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Laughter is the music of life.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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 successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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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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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
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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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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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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 person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
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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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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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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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