Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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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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