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Laughter is the music of life.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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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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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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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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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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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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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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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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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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