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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.

Florence Nightingale

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
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
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice
The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Domestic Entertainment Nursing Party Time Woman Work
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
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
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
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
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience

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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