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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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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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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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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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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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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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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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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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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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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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