For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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