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You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.

Perhaps when all is written courageously, I shall have no courage left to publish it.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.

Oh, if our friends would but put off anatomising one till after one was safely dead, and call to mind that, previously, we have nerves to be agonised and morbid brains to be driven mad!

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

The task of keeping the galley fire alight was both difficult and strenuous, and it took his thoughts away from the chances of immediate dissolution.

The task now was to secure the safety of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental power and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me.

The outlook was cheerless indeed, but much work had to be done and we could not yield to the desire to remain in the sleeping-bags.

There are some men who will do more than their share of work and who will attempt more than they are physically able to accomplish.

Nevertheless the person in charge never seems to look the impossibility in the face.

Let your doubt be to yourself, your decision to them.

It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

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.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.