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Never give nor take an excuse.

Florence Nightingale

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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
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Time Way World
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
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
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
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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