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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.

Florence Nightingale

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
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
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
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
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
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice
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
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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Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
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
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
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

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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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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