Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligious 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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 very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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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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