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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Florence Nightingale

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
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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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
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
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
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Time Way World
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Journey Ourselves Place Special
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
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
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
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific

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