Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEVariety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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No 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.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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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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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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.
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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