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I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Florence Nightingale

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
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
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.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
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
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
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
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
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
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
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy

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