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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Florence Nightingale

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
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
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
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
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
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Body Master Society Soul Treatment
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave 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
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
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
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle

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