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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.

Florence Nightingale

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
Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
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
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
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
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
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
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
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
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
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves

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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