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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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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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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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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 successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things the motto of one is Prove all things and hold fast that which is good and of the other Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.
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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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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 is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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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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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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