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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

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
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
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
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
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
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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
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
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
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
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
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

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

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