Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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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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