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

Florence Nightingale

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
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
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
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
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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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Body Master Society Soul Treatment
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
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
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
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself

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

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