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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

Florence Nightingale

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
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
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Body Master Society Soul Treatment
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Breathe Drink Power Prayer
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

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