Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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