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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Florence Nightingale

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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Excellence Fear Repeat Spirit
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero
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
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
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
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
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Devotion Habit Nurse Ourselves Safety
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
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
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
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
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 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 most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice

Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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