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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.

Florence Nightingale

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
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
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
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 cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
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
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
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 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
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
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand

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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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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