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 NIGHTINGALENo woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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