To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALERather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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 am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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