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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale

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
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
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
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
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
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Breathe Drink Power Prayer
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Average Equality Habit Leadership
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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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
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
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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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work

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