If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

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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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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.

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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

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

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

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