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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Florence Nightingale

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
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
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
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut 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
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
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
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
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
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time

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