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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Ability Been Could Done
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

All The World Before Belief Choose
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Because Day Early Enough
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Discipline Far Gift God
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Become Come Contrary Courtesy
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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.

After Cold Disease Faint
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Among Elements Good Health
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Exceptions Knows Man Old
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Children Done Honest Like
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

Air Badly Certain Constructed
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Against Best Humane Infection
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Because Grow Men Old
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

About Any Box Came
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Always Children Express Invariably
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Always Because Before Die
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Chamber Common First-Rate Furniture
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Fits Handle Lie Many
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Have the courage to act instead of react.

Act Courage Instead React
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Before Carve Clearly Every
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience Insight Life Moment
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Friendship Game Plays Pleasing
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

At Least One Before Begin Born
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Begin Grandiose Man Politics
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Always Everything Excuse Had
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Ashamed Deeds Frequently Good
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Being Better Constantly Desiring
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Disguise Does Exists Hide
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

Believe Doubt Love Most
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Accustomed Become Disguise Disguised
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Favors Of Further Gratitude
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Complains Everyone His Judgment
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Contains Jealousy Love More
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

About Everyone Few Ghosts
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Calculation More Often Than
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Due More Our Passions
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Fault Last Long Only
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Being Clever Us Desire
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Always Fooled Heart Intellect
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Bear Enough Misfortunes Others
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Appear Before Disguised Finally
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

About Ill Ourselves Rather
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Detail Happened How How Many Times
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Advice Anyone Badly Because
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Ability Great Hide How
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Degree Forgives Loves One
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Agreeable Deceiving End Hope
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Actions Ashamed Best Could
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Bad Bad People Dangerous Devoid
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