Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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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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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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 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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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