The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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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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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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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 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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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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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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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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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