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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Florence Nightingale

No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Domestic Entertainment Nursing Party Time Woman Work
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
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
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
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
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief 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
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick

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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