I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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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 are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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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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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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