The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor 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. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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