I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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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