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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.

Florence Nightingale

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Average Equality Habit Leadership
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
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking
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
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
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
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
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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Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
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
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
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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Call Family God Himself Important Religion

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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