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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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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
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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 only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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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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
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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