I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEUnnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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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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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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