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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThat Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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