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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

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
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
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
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
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
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
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
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
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
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
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
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
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
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 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
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself
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
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing

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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