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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.

Florence Nightingale

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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Body Master Society Soul Treatment
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success

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