People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Mysticism: 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.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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