Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

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

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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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For the sick it is important to have the best.

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