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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Florence Nightingale

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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
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
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
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
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
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
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
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
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
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
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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