I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhen shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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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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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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