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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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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.
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.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
