At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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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 next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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