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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Florence Nightingale

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Excellence Fear Repeat Spirit
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success

No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

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