I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI use the word nursing for want of a better.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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