We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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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 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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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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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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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