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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Florence Nightingale

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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Patient Refusal Tea
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
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
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
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
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
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
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
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
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

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

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