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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.

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.

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

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.

Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.

There are, however, times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost.

To love, to dream, to feel, to learn, to understand--all these are possible to me if only I may be relieved from willing.

How to make the getting our living poetic! for if it is not poetic, it is not life but death that we get.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

Concentration is an aid to the doing of something; it is not the doing of something in itself.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.