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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

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
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
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Excellence Fear Repeat Spirit
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
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
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy

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

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