I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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