At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhy have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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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 can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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