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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Florence Nightingale

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
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
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
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
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
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing

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