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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

Florence Nightingale

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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
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
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Call Family God Himself Important Religion
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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