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

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.

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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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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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