Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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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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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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