Fw: Wonderful Florence Nightingale Quote

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Found this on a newsgroup and wanted to pass it on:

>> I think it is a very common error among the well, to think that " with a

>> little more self control " the sick might, if they choose, " dismiss

>> painful thoughts " which " aggravate their disease, " etc; BELIEVE ME,

>> almost any sick person, who behaves decently well, exercises more

>> self-control every moment of their day than you will ever

>> know until YOU are sick yourself. Almost every step that

>> crosses their room is painful to them; almost every thought

>> that crosses the brain is painful; and if they can speak without

>> being savage, and look without being unpleasant, they are

>> exercising the utmost self-control.

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>> Florence Nightingale, 1869

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