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The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
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May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
Never give nor take an excuse.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.