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

Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
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 a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
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
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
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
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Time Way World

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