To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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 only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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