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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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