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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
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
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
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
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Time Way World
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
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
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
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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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
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
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
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

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