It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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