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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.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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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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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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