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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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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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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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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.
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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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