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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

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
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
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality 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
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
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

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