In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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?
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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