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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.

Florence Nightingale

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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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