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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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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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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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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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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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

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