Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

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

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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.

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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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Never give nor take an excuse.

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

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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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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