Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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