Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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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.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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