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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

Florence Nightingale

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
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
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 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
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
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
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
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
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
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Call Family God Himself Important Religion
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

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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