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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Florence Nightingale

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
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
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
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
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
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange

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