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

Florence Nightingale

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 next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
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
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
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
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
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
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
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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 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
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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

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

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