Never give nor take an excuse.

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

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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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To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

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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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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