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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Better Content Reach World
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
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
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
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
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
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Breathe Drink Power Prayer
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
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero
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 next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
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
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand

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