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

Florence Nightingale

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Average Equality Habit Leadership
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
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
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small
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
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
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
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
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
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
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
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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