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

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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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Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

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

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I use the word nursing for want of a better.

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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Never give nor take an excuse.

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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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