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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.

Florence Nightingale

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
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
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
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
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
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
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
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
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Devotion Habit Nurse Ourselves Safety
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself

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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