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Asceticism Is The Trifling Of An Enthusiast With His Power, A Puerile Coquetting With His Selfishness Or His Vanity, In The Absence Of Any Sufficiently Great Object To Employ The First Or Overcome The Last.

It May Seem A Strange Principle To Enunciate As The Very First Requirement In A Hospital That It Should Do The Sick No Harm. It Is Quite Necessary Nevertheless To Lay Down Such A Principle.

May We Hope That, When We Are All Dead And Gone, Leaders Will Arise Who Have Been Personally Experienced In The Hard, Practical Work, The Difficulties, And The Joys Of Organizing Nursing Reforms, And Who Will Lead Far Beyond Anything We Have Done!

By Mortifying Vanity We Do Ourselves No Good. It Is The Want Of Interest In Our Life Which Produces It; By Filling Up That Want Of Interest In Our Life We Can Alone Remedy It.

Live Life When You Have It. Life Is A Splendid Gift-there Is Nothing Small About It.