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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Florence Nightingale

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
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
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
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
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Better Content Reach World
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
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
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
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Body Master Society Soul Treatment
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
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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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero
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

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