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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
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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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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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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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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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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
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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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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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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil a relish of knowledge and you put life into his work.
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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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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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