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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.

Florence Nightingale

Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
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
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
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Experience Gain Nurse Progress 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
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
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
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
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
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
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance

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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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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