The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEOur first journey is to find that special place for us.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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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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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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