Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligious 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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