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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

Florence Nightingale

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
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
The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Domestic Entertainment Nursing Party Time Woman Work
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
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
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
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Devotion Habit Nurse Ourselves Safety
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
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
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

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