At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAverages seduce us away from minute observation.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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