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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Florence Nightingale

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
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
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
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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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
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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Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
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
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
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
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
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

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