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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
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
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Call Family God Himself Important Religion
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
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
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
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
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
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
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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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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

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