Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAverages seduce us away from minute observation.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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