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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

Florence Nightingale

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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