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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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Sir William Osler
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
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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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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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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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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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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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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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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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