Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. … - Florence Nightingale

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I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of many things would slow down at least for awhile. Stockholders don't want to hear about the saving of the whales or some stream in Kentucky. They want a return on their investment.

Florence Nightingale

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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Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering. . . not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.

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We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing;. . . nature alone cures. . . . And what [true] nursing has to do. . . is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient. ' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

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The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

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