That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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