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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

Florence Nightingale

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
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
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
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
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself
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
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
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
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
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

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

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