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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

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For the sick it is important to have the best.

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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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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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Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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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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Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

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