The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI use the word nursing for want of a better.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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