I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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 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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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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