Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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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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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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