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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
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
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
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
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
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 specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage

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