Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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