The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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