Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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