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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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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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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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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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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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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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Laughter is the music of life.
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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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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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