To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENo 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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