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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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