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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMysticism: 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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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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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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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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