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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENo woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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 night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELittle 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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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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet 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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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.
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.
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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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere 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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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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMysticism: 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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWoman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEUnnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENature 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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