Nursing 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEOur first journey is to find that special place for us.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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