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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Florence Nightingale

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
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
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
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
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
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
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
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
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

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