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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.

Florence Nightingale

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
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
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
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
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
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
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
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover

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