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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.

Florence Nightingale

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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself

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