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• Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that…
• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
• People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,…
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done…
• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have…
• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…
• Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
• The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in…
• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
• For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward…
• Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
• A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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