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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

Florence Nightingale

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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
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
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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
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

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