Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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