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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Florence Nightingale

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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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 world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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