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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Florence Nightingale

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Important Lesson Observation Practice
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Room Shut Sick
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Average Equality Habit Leadership
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
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 NIGHTINGALE

Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves

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