A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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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 is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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