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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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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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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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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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