I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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

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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

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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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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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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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