A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEJesus 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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