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

Florence Nightingale

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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Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
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
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
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
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
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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Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
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
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
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
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
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
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
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
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
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
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
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
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
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
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

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