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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Florence Nightingale

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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
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
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
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
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
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
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 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
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Call Family God Himself Important Religion
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself

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