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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Florence Nightingale

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
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
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
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
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
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
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
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
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
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy 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
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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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

The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

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