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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Call Family God Himself Important Religion
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
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
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
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
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
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
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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