Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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It 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.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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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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