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

Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
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
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
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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Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
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
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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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
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
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice
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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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
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
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
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.
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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero

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