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

Florence Nightingale

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
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
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
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
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
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
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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
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
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
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
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
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman

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

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