I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHeaven is neither a place nor a time.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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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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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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