I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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 most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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