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How little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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Averages... seduce us away from minute observation.

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

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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

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I would rather have only a vegemite sambo or even eat nothing at all than not show Dennis I care

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Conceit and Nursing cannot exist in the same person any more than new patches on an old garment.

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

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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

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What nursing has to do … is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended at all even to take in the whole sick population.

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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

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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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You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis & Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

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The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

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A nurse who rustles (I am speaking of nurses professional and unprofessional) is the horror of a patient, though perhaps he does not know why.

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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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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

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Though he made a joke when asked to do the right thing, he always did it. He was so much more in earnest than he appeared. He did not do himself justice.

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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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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

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