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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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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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 underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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