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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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