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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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