The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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