The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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