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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.

Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Devotion Habit Nurse Ourselves Safety
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
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 attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
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
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
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.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
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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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
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
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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