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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
