Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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