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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.

Florence Nightingale

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
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
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
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
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
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
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
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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
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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Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself

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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