Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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

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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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

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