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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Florence Nightingale

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
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
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
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
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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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Average Equality Habit Leadership
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
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
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

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