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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Florence Nightingale

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
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 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
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
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
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
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World

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