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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Florence Nightingale

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
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
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
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
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word

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