The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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 want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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 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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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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