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What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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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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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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